For the town in Nayarit, see Xalisco. The state’s GDP was 566,809,524 million pesos in 2008, amount corresponding to 44,281,994. 06 million dollars, being a dollar sopitos 12.
Jalisco is one of the most economically and culturally important states in Mexico, owing to its natural resources as well as its long history and culture. Jalisco is the seventh-largest state in Mexico, accounting for 4. Jalisco is made up of a diverse terrain that includes forests, beaches, plains, and lakes. Its five natural regions are: Northwestern Plains and Sierras, Sierra Madre Occidental, Central Plateau, Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, which covers most of the state, and the Sierra Madre del Sur.
Santiago River and its tributaries, rivers that empty directly into the Pacific and rivers in the south of the state. The other main surface water is Lake Chapala, and is the largest and most important freshwater lake in Mexico, accounting for about half of the country’s lake surface. The lake acts as a regulator of the flow of both the Lerma and Santiago Rivers. Jalisco has eight areas under conservation measures totaling 208,653. Sierra de Manantlán Biosphere Reserve accounts for sixty percent of all legally protected land at 139,500 hectares. Thirteen plant communities are present in the state.
Forty five to fifty percent of the state is characterized by deciduous and sub-deciduous forests. They occur along the coastal plains as well as in canyons in the central part of the state from sea level to 1600masl. Some areas, scattered within the tropical sub-deciduous forest along the coastal plains, are dominated by palms. Most of the state has a temperate climate with humid summers which are tropical. There is a distinct rainy season from June to October.