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Colima
Colima, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Colima, is among the 31 states that make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It shares its name with its capital and main city, Colima. Colima is a small state of western Mexico on the central Pacific coast, and includes the four oceanic Revillagigedo Islands. Mainland Colima shares borders with the states of Jalisco and Michoacán. In addition to the capital city of Colima, the main cities are Manzanillo, Villa de Alvarez and Tecomán. Colima is the fourth smallest state in Mexico and has the smallest population, but has one of Mexico's highest standards of living and the lowest unemployment. It is also the state with the highest murder rate per capita and one of the highest crime rates, due to its ports being a contested area for cartels. Geography The state covers a territory of 5,455 km2 and is the fourth smallest federal entity after Tlaxcala, Morelos and the Federal District of Mexico City, containing on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colima City
Colima (), located in west−central Mexico, is the capital of Colima, the state of the same name and the seat of the Municipalities of Mexico, municipality of the same name. It is the easternmost and second-largest municipality of Colima, behind Manzanillo Municipality, Colima, Manzanillo. It is located near the Colima (volcano), Colima volcano, which divides the state from Jalisco. The city of Colima is part of the which also includes Villa de Álvarez and other municipalities. In 2011, FDI Intelligence, a subsidiary of the ''Financial Times'' of London, ranked Colima first in small cities and tenth in Latin America as a place to live. It was evaluated under six categories: economic potential, human resources, cost-benefit ratio, quality of life, infrastructure and favorable business environment. In 2022, however, Colima was ranked as the murder capital of the world with a homicide rate of 182 per 100,000. Places The historic center of the city is a square called Jardín Libert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volcán De Colima
The Volcán de Colima, , also known as Volcán de Fuego, is part of the Colima Volcanic Complex (CVC) consisting of Volcán de Colima, Nevado de Colima () and the eroded El Cántaro (listed as extinct). It is the youngest of the three and as of 2015 is one of the most active volcanoes in Mexico and in North America. Having been active for nearly 5 million years, and with frequent eruptions, the Volcán de Colima is considered a mwod:stratovolcano, stratovolcano. "Volcán de Fuego is an active stratovolcano, the most explosive and dangerous of all of Mexico"Colima. It has eruption, erupted more than 40 times since 1576. One of the largest eruptions was on January 20–24, 1913. Nevado de Colima, also known as Tzapotépetl, lies north of its more active neighbor and is the taller of the two at . It is the 26th-most prominent peak in North America. Despite its name, only a fraction of the volcano's surface area is in the Colima (state), state of Colima; the majority of its surfac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gricelda Valencia De La Mora
Gricelda Valencia de la Mora (born 27 December 1973) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement party. From 2018 to 2024, she was a senator of the Congress of the Union representing the state of Colima, and in 2024 she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. Political career Gricelda Valencia de la Mora was born in Colima, Mexico, in 1973. She studied a degree in pedagogy at the Universidad Multitécnica Profesional Colima. In the federal elections of 2012, she was nominated as a candidate for senator for the state of Colima by the Progressive Movement coalition, made up of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), the Labor Party (PT) and the Citizen Movement party (MC). In the elections, she came in third place, with approximately 15% of the votes cast in her favor. In the 2018 federal elections, she was nominated as a second-party senator for the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party after Indira Vizcaíno Silva renounced her c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Vizcaíno Silva
Indira Vizcaíno Silva (born 14 January 1987) is a Mexican politician from the Morena (political party), Morena party. From 2009 to 2012 she served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Colima. In 2021, she became the second female Governor of Colima after Griselda Álvarez, as well as the first non-Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI governor of the state in over 90 years. The daughter of former politician Arnoldo Vizcaíno, she was born in Tijuana while her father worked in the city but grew up in Colima. References 1987 births Living people Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Deputies of the LXIV Legislature of Mexico Municipal presidents in Colima Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians University of Colima alumni 21st-century Mexican women politicians Politicians from Tijuana Deputies of the LXI Legislature of Mexico Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Colima Governors of Colima {{Mexico-polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Mexico
This is a list of the Top 100 cities in Mexico by fixed population, according to the 2020 Censo General de Población y Vivienda, Mexican National Census. According to Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), a locality is "any place settled with one or more dwellings, which may or may not be inhabited, and which is known by a name given by law or tradition". Urban localities are those with more than 2,500 residents, which can be designated as cities, villages or towns according to the laws of each state. The National Urban System, compiled by the National Population Council (CONAPO) in 2018, identifies 401 urban localities in Mexico with more than 15,000 residents as "cities". Mexican localities are contained within the higher-level administrative division of Municipalities of Mexico, municipalities. This list does not consider the entire population of metropolitan areas and is limited by political boundaries within each municipality or state. Popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Areas Of Mexico
Metropolitan areas of Mexico have been traditionally defined as the group of municipalities that heavily interact with each other, usually around a core city, in Mexico. The phenomenon of conurbation, metropolization in Mexico is relatively recent, starting in the 1940s. Because of an accelerated level of urbanization in the country, the definition of a metropolitan area (in Mexican Spanish: ''zona metropolitana'') is reviewed periodically by the Mexican population and census authorities. Identifying metropolitan areas in Mexico One of the first studies on a methodology to define and quantify the metropolitan areas in Mexico was published by El Colegio de México in 1978. In Luis Unikel's book "Urban Development in Mexico: Diagnosis and Future Implications", a metropolitan area was designated as "the territorial area that includes the political and administrative units from a central city, and any contiguous, urban political and administrative units with a direct socioeconomic inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
States Of Mexico
A Mexican State (), officially the Free and Sovereign State (), is a constituent Federated state, federative Polity, entity of Mexico according to the Constitution of Mexico. Currently there are 31 states, each with its own constitution, State governments of Mexico, government, Lists of Mexican state governors, state governor, and List of Mexican state congresses, state congress. In the hierarchy of Administrative divisions of Mexico, Mexican administrative divisions, states are further divided into municipalities of Mexico, municipalities. Currently there are 2,462 municipalities in Mexico. Although not formally a state, political reforms have enabled Mexico City (), the capital city of the Mexico, United Mexican States to have a federative entity status equivalent to that of the states since January 29, 2016. Current Mexican governmental publications usually lists 32 federative entities (31 states and Mexico City), and 2,478 municipalities (including the 16 boroughs of Mexico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Padilla Peña
Joel Padilla Peña (born 22 July 1959) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Labor Party serving as a senator from the state of Colima. He also was a proportional representation federal deputy in the LIX Legislature. References 1959 births Living people Politicians from Nayarit Labor Party (Mexico) politicians Members of the Congress of Colima Autonomous University of Nayarit alumni University of Colima alumni Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) for Colima Deputies of the LIX Legislature of Mexico Senators of the LXIV and LXV Legislatures of Mexico {{Mexico-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mexican State Governors
The United Mexican States, commonly known as Mexico, is a federation comprising thirty-two Administrative divisions of Mexico, federal entities. The List of mayors of Mexico City, Head of Government of Mexico City is not considered a governorship, but the position is included on this list of governors for completeness. Article 115 of the current Constitution of Mexico, Federal Constitution states that, for their internal government, the states shall adopt the republican, representative, democratic, secular, and popular form of government, with the free municipality as the basis of their territorial division and political and administrative organization. The election of governors of the states and the local legislatures shall be direct and in the manner prescribed by their respective electoral laws. State governors serve six-year terms and, like the President of Mexico, they are barred from seeking reelection. No one who has previously held a governorship may run for or serve in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Territorial Evolution Of Mexico
Mexico has experienced many changes in territorial organization during its history as an independent state. The territorial boundaries of Mexico were affected by presidential and imperial decrees. One such decree was ''the Law of Bases for the Convocation of the Constituent Congress to the Constitutive Act of the Mexican Federation'', which determined the national land area as the result of integration of the jurisdictions that corresponded to New Spain, the Captaincy General of Yucatán, the Captaincy General of Guatemala and the autonomous Kingdoms of East and West. The decree resulted in the Mexican War of Independence, independence from Spain. Organizations Subdivision by intendancies During the period of the Independence of Mexico, part of the territorial organization of New Spain was integrated into the new nation of the First Mexican Empire, Mexican Empire. Added to this were the Captaincy General of Yucatán and the Captaincy General of Guatemala (whose Central Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morena Party (Mexico)
The National Regeneration Movement (), commonly referred to by its syllabic abbreviation Morena (), is a major left-wing political party in Mexico, often described as oscillating between social democracy and populism. As of 2023, it is the largest political party in Mexico by number of members; it has been the ruling party since 2018, and it won a second term in the 2024 general election. The party's name also alludes to Mexico's Catholic national patroness: the Virgin of Guadalupe, known as ''La Morena''. Established as a non-profit organization in 2011 and registered as a political party in 2014, it was led by three-time presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador until 12 December 2017, when he registered as a candidate for the party's presidential nomination and was succeeded by Yeidckol Polevnsky. For the 2018 general election, it formed the coalition '' Juntos Haremos Historia'' (Together We Will Make History) with the left-wing Labor Party and the Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Regeneration Movement
The National Regeneration Movement (), commonly referred to by its syllabic abbreviation Morena (), is a major left-wing political party in Mexico, often described as oscillating between social democracy and populism. As of 2023, it is the largest political party in Mexico by number of members; it has been the ruling party since 2018, and it won a second term in the 2024 general election. The party's name also alludes to Mexico's Catholic national patroness: the Virgin of Guadalupe, known as ''La Morena''. Established as a non-profit organization in 2011 and registered as a political party in 2014, it was led by three-time presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador until 12 December 2017, when he registered as a candidate for the party's presidential nomination and was succeeded by Yeidckol Polevnsky. For the 2018 general election, it formed the coalition '' Juntos Haremos Historia'' (Together We Will Make History) with the left-wing Labor Party and the Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
