Durango (IPA pronunciation /duʲraŋgo/) is one of the constituent states of Mexico.
The major occupations in Durango are farming, lumbering and ranching.
Francisco de Ibarra, the first to colonize Durango, settled this part of the vast northern province of Nueva Vizcaya in 1563, when he founded the capital city and named it Durango for his native town in Biscay, Spain; the foundation was just one in his larger program of initiating settlements through the province.
