Colotlan

Colotlan is positioned in the northern area of the kingdom of Jalisco, in Mexico. The call Colotlan method area of scorpions in Nahuatl. These businesses have been in a country of continuous warfare with the caxcanes that inhabited the area to the south. The first Spaniards to reach inside the region in 1530 arrived under the path of Captain Pedro Almindez Chirino, who reported that the place was basically uninhabited.

The atrocities of the expeditions sent to the place by way of Nuno Beltran de Guzman led an indigenous cacique of the vicinity known as Zacatecas to all of the various indigenous companies to face up to the Spanish incursion within the Mixton War in 1540, taking refuge specially within the hill known these days. As Cerro de Santiago and thus be capable of visualize the territory which began to occupy the colonizers. In 1546, the governor of New Galicia, Cristobal de Onate sent Juan de Tolosa to the place and this man was able to persuade the neighborhood indigenous organizations to simply accept the army presence of the Spanish Crown and evangelization, giving extravagant presents to their leaders.