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zacatecas

n. A state of Mexico.

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Zacatecas

Zacatecas , officially the Free and Sovereign State of Zacatecas , is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 58 municipalities and its capital city is Zacatecas.

Zacatecas is located in North-Central Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Durango to the northwest, Coahuila to the north, Nayarit to the west, San Luis Potosí and Nuevo León to the east, and Jalisco, Guanajuato and Aguascalientes to the south.

The state is best known for its rich deposits of silver and other minerals, its colonial architecture and its importance during the Mexican revolution. Its main economic activities are mining, agriculture and tourism.

Zacatecas (moth)

Zacatecas is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family. It contains only one species, Zacatecas ankasokellus, which is found in Madagascar.

Usage examples of "zacatecas".

San Pedro and later at Zacatecas and the boys were boys from the country, two of them born on the hacienda.

Lucia had come from Zacatecas when she was young to work in a Sun Country night club.

We also know Arguello was born at Zacatecas, the old colonial city in the Valley of Mexico that provided New Mexico with many of its seventeenth-century soldiers and settlers.