Juanacatlan

Juanacatlan is a municipality located in the valuable place of the kingdom of Jalisco. It has to be stated that the interpretation of location of onions does now not correspond to the original that means of the name, in view that the ones tubers had been added by using the conquerors, which would render the given interpretation illogical. There is, in the fields and hills of those places, a species of jicama or cebollita as its miles commonly known within the location, which would definitely be the cause of the call.

The writer jalisciense Juan Jose Arreola deciphers the name as vicinity of precise onions. Even even though the preceding that means is the only maximum connected to the indigenous roots, since the hieroglyph of the same has been positioned in various writings, and is the identical that may be seen within the middle of the municipal defend, there also are different variations, which includes place of butterflies, call that would derive from Papantl , butterfly for the extra hill that dominates the landscape: The Papanton.