Guelavia

Guelavia is a metropolis and municipality in Oaxaca in south western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 17.86 km². It is a part of the Tlacolula District in the east of the Valles Centrales Region. San Juan Guelavia is on the river and one of the few groups within the valley that had traditionally set up irrigation canals. Early Spanish migration to the location consisted of livestock ranchers who moved their livestock from communal utilization pastures within the mountains to communal pastures within the valley.

In 1539, Bartolome Sanchez changed into granted an estancia de granado mayor permanent land retaining rights close to what's now San Juan Guelavia. Guelavia's 16th century church has a large quantity of colonial generation santos, statues of Roman Catholic saints. During the Mexican Revolution, in 1914, General Juan M. Brito stationed his troops near San Juan Guelavia to oppose the Federalist ambitions of Venustiano Carranza. After the battle, Brito frolicked in a prison within the Federal District of Mexico City before returning to San Juan Guelavia, in which he hooked up himself as a businessman going for walks a store and additionally the local jefe strong guy controlling the neighborhood communities via force of his armed fans.