Xalisco

Xalisco is a city and its surrounding municipality of the same call in the Mexican kingdom of Nayarit. The metropolis had a populace of 21,899 in the 2005 census at the same time as the municipality has an area of 290.6 km² and a population of 42,893. The municipality lies adjoining to the south facet of Tepic, the nation capital and is part of the Tepic metropolitan location. Formerly called Jalisco this municipality is placed 6.4 km. Southwest of Tepic.

In the north it bounds the municipality of Tepic, inside the south the municipality of Compostela; in the east the municipality of Santiago Ixcuintla and in the west the municipality of San Blas. The total vicinity is 290.60 rectangular kilometers, which makes it the smallest of the 20 municipalities that make up the nation. Over half of the municipal territory is mountainous with one top, Cerro Alto, reaching 2,240 meters. There are several small rivers and streams of short period. In the upper elevations there are nevertheless conifers and all right, however over-forestry and long years of wood gathering for cooking have severely depleted the natural cowl. There are nevertheless deer, badgers, armadillos and javelinas in extra far off places.