Huajicori () is both a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

and the municipal seat of the same in the Mexican state of

Nayarit Nayarit (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nayarit ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de 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 ...

. The population of the municipality was 10,294 in 2000 in a total area of 2,603.5 km². Its area makes up almost 10% of the state. The population of the town was 2,201 (2005). Huajicori is located 180 km north of the state capital

Tepic Tepic () is the capital and largest city of the western Mexican state of Nayarit, as well as the seat of the Tepic Municipality. Located in the central part of the state, it stands at an altitude of above sea level, on the banks of the Rí ...

, 125 km north of

Santiago Ixcuintla Santiago de Ixcuintla is a municipality and a municipal seat in the western Mexican state of Nayarit. The municipal population was 84,314 inhabitants (census of 2000) with the municipal seat having 18,269. The area of the municipality was 1,831 ...

, and 19 km northwest of

Acaponeta Acaponeta is both a municipality and a town in the northern part of the Mexican state of Nayarit. The town is located at the geographical coordinates of . The population of the municipality was 34,665 in the 2005 census, living in a total area of ...

. It is bounded in the north by the municipality of

Pueblo Nuevo, Durango Pueblo Nuevo is a village in Pueblo Nuevo Municipality, Durango, Mexico. As of 2005, the village of Pueblo Nuevo which was the seat of government of the municipality before the 1920s had a total population of 2,837. Populated places in Duran ...

; in the south with the municipality of

, in the west with the municipality of

Escuinapa Escuinapa de Hidalgo is a city in Escuinapa Municipality of the same name, located at the extreme southern end of the Mexican state of Sinaloa. Its geographical coordinates are . At the census of 2005 the city had a population of 28,789 inhabitan ...

, in the state of Sinaloa; in the northwest with the municipality of Rosario, state of Sinaloa. The Río de las Cañas forms the boundary between the states of Nayarit and Sinaloa. The name comes from the Cora word “Huaxi-imi”, ( peyote) and “Huac”, which is the denomination “a lot of peyote”; so Huajicori means the place “Where there is a lot of peyote”. The economy is based on subsistence farming and cattle raising. The main crops are corn, beans,

jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

, and fruit trees.

Climate

References

Enciclopedia de los Municipios de MéxicoInstituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografia, e Informática
{{Nayarit Populated places in Nayarit Municipalities of Nayarit