Querétaro

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Querétaro (Spaingie pronunciation: [keˈɾetaɾo]) offeecially Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro de Arteaga (Scots: Free an Sovereign State o Queretaro de Arteaga) is ane o the 31 states which, wi the Federal Destrict, comprise the 32 Federal Entities o Mexico. It is dividit intae 18 municipalities an its caipital ceety is Santiago de Querétaro.

Querétaro Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro
State
Free an Sovereign State o Queretaro de Arteaga
Banner Seal
State o Querétaro athin Mexico
Coordinates: 20°50′16″N 99°51′05″W
Kintra	Mexico
Capital	Santiago de Querétaro
Lairgest ceety	Santiago de Querétaro
Municipalities	18
Admission	23 December 1823[1]
Order	11t
Govrenment
• Govrenor	José Calzada
• Senators[2]	Guillermo Tamborrel Eduardo Nava Ma. del Socorro García
• Deputies[3]	Federal Deputies • Alfredo Lugo • Reginaldo Rivera • Jesús María Rodríguez • Adriana Fuentes Cortés • Miguel Martínez • Marcela Torres • Sandra Ugalde Basaldúa • Carlos Alberto Ezeta • Rafael Pacchiano Alamán
Area [4]
• Total	11684 km2 (4,511 sq mi)
	Ranked 27t
Highest elevation [5]	3360 m (11,020 ft)
Population  (2010)[6]
• Total	1,827,937
• Rank	22nt
• Density	160/km2 (410/sq mi)
• Density rank	7t
Demonym(s)	Queretano (a)
Time zone	UTC−6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Postal code	76
Auriea code	Aurie codes • 414 • 419 • 427 • 441 • 442 • 448 • 487
ISO 3166 code	MX-QUE
HDI	0.831 high Ranked 16t
GDP	US$ 12,552,404.609 mil[a]
Website	Official Web Site
^ a. The state's GDP wis 160,670,779 million o pesos in 2008,[7] amoont correspondin tae 12,552,404.609 millon o dollars, being a dollar worth 12.80 pesos (value o 3 Juin 2010).[8]

It is located in North-Central Mexico, in a region kent as el Bajío. It is bordered bi the states o San Luis Potosí tae the north, Guanajuato tae the wast, Hidalgo tae the east, México tae the sootheast an Michoacán tae the soothwast.

The state is ane o the smawest in Mexico, but it is an aw ane o the maist heterogeneous geographically,^[9][10] wi ecoseestems varyin frae deserts tae tropical rainforest, especially in the Sierra Gorda, which is filled wi micro ecoseestems. The aurie o the state wis locatit on the northren edge o Mesoamericae, wi baith the P’urhépecha an Aztec Empires haein influence in the extreme sooth, but neither really dominatit it. The aurie, especially the Sierra Gorda, haed a number o sma ceety states in but bi the time the Spaingie arrivit, these haed aw been abandoned, wi anerlie sma agricultural veelages an semi nomadic fowks inhabitin the aurie. Spaingie conquest wis focused on the establishment o the Santiago de Querétaro, which still dominates the state culturally, economically an educationally.