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Durango (State of Mexico with an area)

a state of Mexico, with an area of 38,009 square miles. It is for the most part high and dry plateau and is traversed in the northern part by the Sierra Madre mountains. The soil in general is good and produces wheat, vegetables, sugar cane, and cotton. Corn, tobacco, and grapes are also grown. The principal industry of the state is mining, and its silver mines have been famous from colonial times. Iron and steel are also mined near the city of Durango.

Manufacturing has made some progress in recent years. There are soap and candle factories, tanneries, and pottery works. Pop. about 500,000. The capital is Durango.

DURANGO (also (also called Guadiana and Ciudad de Victoria), a town of Mexico, on a dry plateau, 6,700 feet above sealevel, 500 miles N. W. of the City of Mexico. It is handsomely built, with a cathedral, a former Jesuit college, a theater, and a mint, and the town now has tramways and telephones. Pop. about 33,000.