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Nayarit | |
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State | |
| Free and Sovereign State of Nayarit Estado Libre y Soberano de Nayarit (Spanish) | |
 Coat of arms | |
 State of Nayarit within Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 22°N 105°W / 22°N 105°W | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| Capital | Tepic |
| Largest City | Tepic |
| Municipalities | 20 |
| Admission | January 26, 1917[1] |
| Order | 28th |
| Government | |
| • Governor |  Miguel Ángel Navarro Quintero |
| • Senators[2] |  Cora Cecilia Pinedo Alonso Rosa Elena Jiménez Arteaga Gloria Elizabeth Núñez Sánchez |
| • Deputies[3] | Federal Deputies |
| Area [4] | |
| • Total | 27,857 km2 (10,756 sq mi) |
| Ranked 23rd | |
| Highest elevation [5] | 2,760 m (9,060 ft) |
| Population (2020)[6] | |
| • Total | 1,235,456 |
| • Rank | 29th |
| • Density | 44/km2 (110/sq mi) |
| • Rank | 23rd |
| Demonym | Nayarita |
| GDP [7] | |
| • Total | MXN 205 billion (US$10.2 billion) (2022) |
| • Per capita | (US$8,171) (2022) |
| Time zones | UTC−7 (MST) |
| UTC−6 (CST) | |
| Postal code | 63 |
| Area code | Area codes |
| ISO 3166 code | MX-NAY |
| HDI |  0.785 (high)Ranked 13th |
| Website | Official website |
Nayarit (Spanish pronunciation: [naʝaˈɾit]), officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Nayarit (English: Free and Sovereign State of Nayarit), is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 20 municipalities and its capital city is Tepic.
It is bordered by the states of Sinaloa to the northwest, Durango to the north, Zacatecas to the northeast and Jalisco to the south. To the west, Nayarit has a significant share of coastline on the Pacific Ocean, including the islands of Marías and Marietas. The beaches of San Blas and the so-called "Riviera Nayarit" are popular with tourists and snowbirds. Besides tourism, the economy of the state is based mainly on agriculture and fishing. It is also one of two states where the tarantula species Brachypelma klaasi is found, the other being Jalisco.
Home to Uto-Aztecan indigenous peoples such as the Huichol and Cora, the region was exposed to the conquistadores Hernán Cortés and Nuño de Guzmán in the 16th century. Spanish governance was made difficult by indigenous rebellions and by the inhospitable terrain of the Sierra del Nayar. The last independent Cora communities were subjugated in 1722. The state's name recalls the Cora people's label for themselves: Náayerite, commemorating Nayar, a resistance leader.[8]
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- ^ "Nayarit". Senado de la República. Archived from the original on 9 November 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ^ "Listado de Diputados por Grupo Parlamentario del Estado de Nayarit". Camara de Diputados. Archived from the original on 20 July 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
- ^ "Resumen". Cuentame INEGI. Archived from the original on 22 December 2010. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
- ^ "Relieve". Cuentame INEGI. Archived from the original on 8 December 2010. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
- ^ "México en cifras". January 2016. Archived from the original on 18 July 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ Citibanamex (13 June 2023). "Indicadores Regionales de Actividad Económica 2023" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 August 2023.
- ^ "El Nayar". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Archived from the original on 2 May 2007. Retrieved 7 August 2007.