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Hidalgo, officially the Free State and Sovereign of Hidalgo, is one of the thirty-one states that, together with Mexico City, make up Mexico. Its capital and most populated city is Pachuca de Soto. It is located in the eastern region of the country, bounded on the north by San Luis Potosí and Veracruz, on the east by Puebla, on the south by Tlaxcala and the state of Mexico, and on the west by Querétaro, with 20,813 km², representing 1.06% of the surface of Mexico, it is the sixth less extensive state - ahead of Queretaro, Colima, Aguascalientes, Morelos and Tlaxcala, the least extensive. It is located between the coordinates: to the north, 21°23 '55' '. To the south, 19°35 '52' 'of the north latitude.

To the east, 97°59 '06' '. To the west, 99°51 '34' 'of the west longitude, is made up of eighty-four municipalities. According to the latest available census the state has a total population of 2 858 359. That is, 2.3% of the total of the country, of which 1 489 334 are women, and 1 369 025 are men. The Oomíes, Nahuas and Tepehuas are the most present in the state, the most recent information is Hidalgo with a state Human Development Index of 0.723 Medium, Hidalgo's Gross Domestic Product was 264 242 million pesos. And contributes 1.7% to the national GDP. The oldest archaeological record found in Hidalgo is an ax, found in Huapalcalco.

In the present territory of Hidalgo there were numerous indigenous groups, mainly the Toltecs, who founded Tulancingo and Tula. And due to the proximity of this region with respect to the great Tenochtitlán, the Spanish conquest soon reached Hidalgo soil. During New Spain, the silver mines of Mineral del Monte and Pachuca were discovered in 1552. During the Independence of Mexico, the first insurgent uprising was produced by Julián Villagrán in Huichapan. In 1821, during the consummation, insurgent generals Nicolás Bravo and Guadalupe Victoria arrived in Tulancingo.

On January 16,1869, the Congress of the Union issued the Erection Decree of the State of Hidalgo, by President Benito Juárez, designating the city of Pachuca as state capital, to which was added the name "de Soto »in recognition of Manuel Fernando Soto, originally from the city of Tulancingo and who is considered the most important driver in the creation of the state. The Porfiriato was a period of stability and much economic progress in the territory of Hidalgo especially in the development of public works for the sanitation of cities such as Tula, Tulancingo and Pachuca, but also with severe social inequalities that unleashed the Mexican Revolution, Discontented peasants of the Mezquital Valley and the Valley of Apan participated in this conflict.