It follows an extradition request from a Texas federal court
over charges of conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine and marijuana,
money laundering, arms possession and murder.
There was also
an extradition request from a federal court in California.
Charges may also
be pending in Chicago, New York, Miami and San Diego.
Guzman's lawyers
have 30 days to appeal.
One of his representatives, Juan Pablo Badillo, said he would
file "many" legal challenges.
The foreign
ministry said it had received guarantees that the death penalty would not be
sought against Guzman.
Mexico abolished
capital punishment and does not extradite its citizens if they face possible
execution.
"El
Chapo", as he is often known, was the head of the Sinaloa drug
cartel. The day after his recapture, an interview he had given to the
Hollywood actor Sean Penn was published in Rolling Stone magazine.
During his
disappearance he was one of the world's most-wanted, following an audacious
escape from a maximum-security prison through a mile-long tunnel that opened in
his shower floor.
He had already
escaped before, back in 2001 - eventually being recaptured in 2014.
After he was
picked up in January the authorities took him back to the same
prison, Altiplano.
But earlier this
month he was transferred to a jail on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, near the
US border.
Cameras in his
cell and on the helmets of his guards keep him under 24-hour surveillance.
He was re-arrested in
January after almost six
months on the run.
It was suggested
shortly afterwards that flirty messages between him and a Mexican actress had
led in part to his detention.
