Guachinango,_Jalisco

Guachinango, Jalisco

Guachinango, Jalisco

Municipality and town in Jalisco, Mexico

This article is about the Mexican municipality. For other uses, see Guachinango (disambiguation).

Guachinango (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwatʃiˈnaŋɡo]) is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 837.7 km2.

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As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 4,138.[2]

The Spanish discovered gold lodes here in the 1540s, which started commercial gold mining in the area.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Citypopulation.de Population of Guachinango municipality with localities
  2. [2]
    "Guachinango". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on May 31, 2007. Retrieved April 13, 2009.
  3. [3]
    West,Robert. Early Silver Mining in New Spain, 1531-1555 (1997). Bakewell, Peter (ed.). Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas. Aldershot: Variorum, Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 58.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

20.567°N 104.367°W / 20.567; -104.367


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