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  Durango - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Durango (Colorado), city in southwestern Colorado, on the banks of the Animas River.
Durango (city, Mexico), full name Victoria de Durango, city, central Mexico, capital of Durango State, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre...
Durango is a large, diverse state that is among Mexico’s top producers of agricultural,...
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  Durango - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Durango (IPA pronunciation /duʲraŋgo/) is one of the constituent states of Mexico.
The major occupations in Durango are farming, lumbering and ranching.
Francisco de Ibarra, the first to colonize Durango, settled this part of the vast northern province of Nueva Vizcaya in 1563, when he founded the capital city and named it Durango for his native town in Biscay, Spain; the foundation was just one in his larger program of initiating settlements through the province.
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 Durango - 1 Location and Size, 2 Climate, 3 Plants and Animals
Durango is bordered by the Mexican state of Chihuahua on the north; by the Mexican states of Nayarit and Jalisco on the south; by the Mexican states of Zacatecas and Coahuila on the east; and by the Mexican state of Sinaloa on the west.
Durango had a total population of 1,448,661 in 2000; of the total, 709,521 were men and 739,140 were women.
Durango was officially recognized as a Mexican state in 1825 and the first state constitution was written in 1825.
www.nationsencyclopedia.com /mexico/Aguascalientes-M-xico/Durango.html   (2387 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Durango (state)
Durango is the name of both a state of Mexico and that state's capital city.
Durango (IPA pronunciation) is one of the constituent states of Mexico.
Francisco de Ibarra, the first to colonize Durango, settled this part of the vast northern province of Nuevo Vizcaya in 1563, when he founded the capital city and named it Durango for his native town in Vizcaya, Spain; the foundation was just one in his larger program of initiating settlements through the province.
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The state borders with Chihuahua to the north, Coahuila and Zacatecas to the east, Nayarit and Jalisco to the South, and Sinaloa to the west.
The capital city of Durango is located in the southern part of the state at an elevation of 6,166 ft. The city has a pleasant climate with annual average temperatures of 64° F and an annual average precipitation of 18 inches.
There are two main industrial regions in the State of Durango: the capital city of Durango in the south-central region of the state, and the "La Laguna" area in the eastern section, which includes the city of Torreon in the state of Coahuila, and the cities of Gomez Palacio and Lerdo in Durango.
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 Durango follows state trend with rising rents
The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Durango is $655.36, according to the report.
At the end of March, Durango and La Plata County submitted a grant application to Whaley and the Division of Housing, said Greg Hoch, the city’s planning director.
Durango had a 2.9 percent vacancy rate, which was down from 6.2 percent in October 2000.
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 Durango City: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
...Durango City Durango City The City of Durango, also known as Victoria de...capital city of Durango State, Mexico, located at 24.03°N, 104.67°W. The city was founded in...New Spain, including the present day Mexican states of Durango and Chihuahua State.
The City of Durango, also known as Victoria de Durango, is the capital city of Durango State, Mexico, located at 24.03°N, 104.67°W. The city was founded in 1563.
In 1995 the city of Durango had a population of 464,566 people.
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 Destinations
The state of Durango is nestled in the Sierra Madre Occidental.
The city of Durango, the state’s capital, is surrounded by semi-arid desert and serves as a link between Mazatlán on the Pacific coast and inland cities such as Monterrey and Saltillo.
Durango, the capital city of Durango State, serves as a major link between Mazatlán on the Pacific Coast and inland cities such as Monterrey and Saltillo.
www.visitmexicopress.com /destinations_state.asp?destID=14&dest_state=Durango   (436 words)

  
 Search Results for "Durango"
The western half of the state is dominated by the Sierra Madre Occidental.
Durango state, N central Mexico, along the highway linking Mexico City with El Paso, Tex. Minerals are the chief product, but the city is also an agricultural, commercial,...
Durango is the gateway to Mesa Verde National Park and Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and the headquarters for the San Juan National Forest.
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 Tour By Mexico ® - Durango State --- 9
State is located on the north end of the inner zone of Mexico.
In Durango State the largest distance from north to south is of 250 Km.
Durango State bounded on the north by the
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 Travel in Durango, Mexico - History - WorldTravelGate.net®-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The State of Durango is enclaved in the Sierra Madre Occidental on the northwest of Mexico.
Durango City is the capital of the state, and has modern constructions with a province taste of Mexican traditions.
In the eighteenth century, the king of Spain conceded Durango its city title and granted its escutcheon, which is a replica of Vizcaya's in Spain, and which originally belonged to Seρor de Lope de Haro.
www.americatravelling.net /mexico/durango/durango_history.htm   (263 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Durango, state, Mexico, Mexico (Mexican Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Durango is a leading national producer of ferrous metals.
The semiarid plains of E Durango afford good ranching, and livestock raising is a major occupation.
The early European settlers of Durango and Chihuahua (which were then called Nueva Viscaya) were strongly resisted by the native population, but the mines and grazing lands continued to attract colonists.
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 Durango on GlobalGuide.Org, mapping the world
Durango (IPA pronunciation) is one of the constituent states of Mexico.
The city of Durango is the capital of the state.
Francisco de Ibarra, the first to colonize Durango, settled this part of the vast northern province of Nueva Vizcaya in 1563, when he founded the capital city and named it Durango for his native town in Biscay, Spain; the foundation was just one in his larger program of initiating settlements through the province.
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 Durango (state)
Durango (SAMPA pronunciation [du'raNgo]) is one of the constituent states of Mexico.
Among the major occupations for the people in Durango are: farming, lumbering and ranching.
Colonists became highly attracted to the Durango area for its mining and grazing capabilities.
www.xasa.biz /wiki/en/wikipedia/d/du/durango__state_.html   (192 words)

  
 Georgia Water Coalition
Durango's state permit "was issued for a specific amount of water for a specific purpose at a specific location," according to a memo regarding Durango's plans written May 25 by state Environmental Protection Division Director Carol A. Couch.
In his order allowing the Durango permit sale, Davis took the EPD's position into account, as he indicated that in the auction bidders be given a "buyer beware" notice that the EPD has said it won't approve the sales.
Durango's manufacturing processes required the use of millions of gallons of water, and the company possessed a state permit that allowed the pumping of that much water.
www.gwf.org /gawater/july29fuldurango.html   (989 words)

  
 Venenonemia
DURANGO, Mexico--Enrique Hernandez and two of his brothers are on the hunt, armed with 8-inch tweezers and a plastic jar.
Nowhere is the rich and complex scorpion culture as pervasive as in Durango, the northwestern state of which this city is the capital.
But Durango's fame is unshakable, thanks in part to legends like that of "the death cell." The story has it that in 1884, a man named Juan was unfairly jailed in Durango for accidentally killing a woman.
www.venenonemia.org /articulo_durangoscorpion.html   (2081 words)

  
 History of Mexico - The State of Durango
The state is surrounded by the States of Chihuahua and Coahuila de Zaragoza on the north, Zacatecas on the east and southeast, Nayarit on the southwest, and Sinaloa on the west.
The capital of the State is the City of Durango, which had a population of 491,436 in 2000.
With a population of 1,445, 900 in the 2000 census, the State of Durango was ranked twenty-third in terms of population.
www.houstonculture.org /mexico/durango.html   (3970 words)

  
 Government of the state of Durango - Mexico
Durango is the fourth largest State in México with 47,581 miles² of territory.
With a population of 1,448,661 in the State and 491,436 live in the city of Durango.
We were the first State in percentual growth in the textile and apparel industry in 2004.
www.promociondurango.gob.mx /quick.html   (159 words)

  
 Durango Travel :: Mexico Travel Guide :: Mexico Destination Guide :: Travel to Mexico
The areas of Durango and Chihuahua were administered as the province of Nueva Vizcaya until 1786.
Durango was the scene of battles between the constitutionalists and conservatives in 1858, the French and Juarez' forces in 1864 and 1866, and Pancho Villa's army and federal troops in 1914.
This large northwestern state is divided between farm country in the north and east, and the largely impassable Sierra Madre Occidental to the south.
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 STATE OF DURANGO RESORTS HOTELS REAL ESTATE DURANGO MEXICO
The state of Durango is nestled in the Sierra Madre Occidental.
The city of Durango, the state’s capital, is surrounded by semi-arid desert and serves as a link between Mazatlán on the Pacific coast and inland cities such as Monterrey and Saltillo.
Durango’s Historic Center was declared a Zone of Historical Monuments in 1982.
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 Search Results for "Durango"
Durango, state, Mexico, (doorang´go) (KEY), state (1990 pop.
Durango, city, Mexico, (doorang´go) or Victoria de Durango (vektor´ya tha) (KEY), city (1990 pop.
His vigorous fighting in the revolution of 1910-11 was largely...
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Localized events and processes in the state of Durango profoundly affected the nature of the Northern Revolution that, in one form or another, dominated Mexico from 1910 until the 1930s.
While most of the new rifles were distributed to state rural police forces, López Negrete kept and stored fifty of these rifles and a large supply of ammunition at the casco of Sombreretillos, which he fortified as a potential base of operations to defeat an anticipated assault by townspeople and villagers.
Foreign observers such as the United States and British Consuls in Durango and Coahuila erroneously identified Luís Moya (who was born in Chalchihuites, Zacatecas and was the leader of a local Maderista uprising in Nieves, Zacatecas in early February 1911) as a Cuencamé ranchero.
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 Hotel and Travel Deals
This Doubletree Hotel in Durango overlooks the Animas River in the San Juan Mountains, and is approximately 14 miles from Durango-La Plata County Airport.
Durango Travelodge is located approximately 12 miles from La Plata Field Airport and 45 miles from Mesa Verde National Park.
Super 8 Durango is near Purgatory ski resort, Animas River, and approximately 13 miles from Durango Airport.
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 Georgia Water Coalition
ATLANTA - The state's top environmental policy director has challenged a federal bankruptcy court judge's ruling that the water rights of a defunct coastal Georgia paper mill can be sold off to the highest bidder.
Carol Couch, head of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, said in a letter that it is incorrect for the court to assume that water permits issued to the bankrupt Durango-Georgia Paper Co. can be liquidated to pay off the former St. Marys paper mill's debt.
Bill Shanahan, city manager of St. Marys, said representatives involved with the sale of the property met with him several months ago and told him water rights at the mill "could be an option," if the city was interested.
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 Durango state election, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Mexican state of Durango held an election on Sunday, 4 July 2004.
At stake was the office of the Durango State Governor, all 25 members of the unicameral Durango State Congress, and 39 mayors and municipal councils.
The new governor was sworn in on 15 September 2004.
pda.molinu.com /wiki/en/du/Durango%20state%20election%2C%202004.htm   (143 words)

  
 Durango, Mexico, Pictures
The region surrounding Durango is rich in minerals, particularly silver, iron, copper, gold, and coal.
It is the seat of Juárez University of Durango State (1856).
Founded in 1563, Durango became the political and ecclesiastical capital of the Spanish colonial province of Nueva Viscaya, which comprised the present-day Mexican states of Chihuahua and Durango.
www.greatestcities.com /North_America/Mexico/Durango_Victoria_de_Durango_and_State_city_regional_capital.html   (347 words)

  
 Durango, Durango - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses of the same name, see Durango (disambiguation).
The city of Durango is the capital of the state of Durango, Mexico, located at 24°01′N 104°40′W.
In the Spanish colonial era it was the capital of the Nueva Viscaya province of New Spain, including the present day Mexican states of Durango and Chihuahua.
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 Durango - Encyclopedia.com
Supplying a demand: the recyclers of Durango McKinley Paper Co. help furnish their corporate mills in the United States and Mexico.
Durango: designing, engineering & producing a better SUV; Chrysler Group is taking the opportunity with its second-generation Durango to create a product that has all of the fundamentals right so that it can be competitive in a marketplace that has more than its share of contenders.(On Cars)(sports utility vehicle)
Durango, Colo., Sees Decline in Number of Local Manufacturing Operations.
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 Durango, Mexico - Vacation Rental and Hotel Reservations
Durango is one of the constituent states of Mexico.
This was a late colonization for the Spanish, mostly due to heavy resistance to Spanish occupation by the indigenous population living there, from first contact to modern times, in attempts to gain some autonomy, address grievances, or maintain traditional land ownership.
Spanish colonists became highly attracted to the Durango area for its mining and grazing capabilities.
www.allmexicoaccommodation.com /durango.htm   (432 words)

  
 About the Durango Microfilming Project
The Durango Microfilming Project is a cooperative effort involving the Archdiocese of Durango, Mexico, the Universidad Juarez del Estado de Durango, the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricos de UJED, the Archivo Histórico del Estado de Durango and The Rio Grande Historical Collections at New Mexico State University.
The purpose of the project is to microfilm the contents of the Historical Archives of the Archdiocese of Durango and important portions of the Historical Archive of the State of Durango.
The notarial archives of the State of Durango, Mexico are housed in the Archivos Históricos del Estado de Durango, located in the state cultural complex.
archives.nmsu.edu /rghc/durango/abtproj.html   (368 words)

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