Ameca

Ameca is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in valuable-western Mexico. The municipality covers a place of 685.Seventy three km². The city is bisected by using the Ameca River which drains to the Pacific Ocean near Puerto Vallarta. It is likewise about eighty three km from the kingdom capital and one in every of Mexico's largest commercial facilities, Guadalajara. The metropolis is also the seat and biggest town of the federal sub-department Region Valles, which compromises the municipalities situated at the relevant valleys of Jalisco. As of 2010, the municipality had a complete population of 57,340, and the city had a populace of 36,156, making it the 15th biggest town of Jalisco in terms of populace.

In the early 16th century Ameca become the middle of the small kingdom of Ameca. This country changed into conquered by using the Spanish in 1524. It become part of the alcaldia mayor of Autlan, New Spain in the course of the Spanish colonial duration. The first of the conquerors who arrived in Ameca changed into the Spanish soldier Juan de Anesta in 1522, who arrived barefoot, alone and along with his sword in hand. The natives received him by myself because they concept he changed into the son of the solar, as their ancestors had expected who would come to overcome and that all would be concern to him and pay tribute.