Guadalajara | |
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Ciudad de Guadalajara Ceety o Guadalajara | |
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Location o Guadalajara athin Jalisco | |
Coordinates: 20°40′N 103°21′W / 20.667°N 103.350°WCoordinates: 20°40′N 103°21′W / 20.667°N 103.350°W | |
Kintra | Mexico |
State | Jalisco |
Municipality | Guadalajara |
Foondation | 1542 |
Govrenment | |
• Spaingie: Alcalde (Inglis: Mayor) | Aristóteles Sandoval |
Area | |
• Ceety | 151 km2 (58 sq mi) |
• Metro | 2734 km2 (1,056 sq mi) |
Elevation | 1566 m (5138 ft) |
Population (2009) | |
• Ceety | 1,564,514 |
• Density | 10361/km2 (26,830/sq mi) |
• Metro | 4,328,584 |
• Metro density | 1583/km2 (4,100/sq mi) |
• Demonym | Tapatío guadalajarense |
Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
Website | Offeecial wabsteid |
Guadalajara (Spaingie pronunciation: [ɡwaðalaˈxaɾa]) is the caipital o the Mexican state o Jalisco, an the seat o the municipality o Guadalajara. The ceety is locatit in the central region o Jalisco in the wastren-paceefic area o Mexico. Wi a population o 1,564,514 it is Mexico's seicont maist muckle municipality.[1] The Guadalajara Metropolitan Area includes seiven adjacent municipalities wi a reportit population o 4,328,584 in 2009, makin it the seicont maist populous metropolitan area in Mexico, ahint Mexico Ceety.[1][2] The municipality is the seicont maist densely populatit area in Mexico; the first being Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl in Estado de México.[3]