Ojuelos de Jalisco

Ojuelos de Jalisco is a metropolis and municipality of the High North Region of the state of Jalisco, Mexico. It is placed inside the Central North vicinity of Mexico within the heart of the Altiplano. The town changed into founded for the duration of the Spanish Viceroyalty in 1569 whilst a Fort or presidio changed into constructed there, on the orders of the Viceroy Martin Enriquez de Almanza to protect the Spaniards who had been traveling between Mexico City and the recently found mineral of Zacatecas. They were continuously pressured by using the huachichiles that lived in the Cerro Del Toro, in the place of the contemporary region of Ojuelos.

Of precise significance had been the attacks inflicted by the legendary chief of the Huachichil Maxorro, which induced the Viceroy to decide the development of seven forts along the direction referred to as the Silver Route. The first 2 forts were constructed in Ojuelos and Portezuelos, underneath the supervision of Captain Pedro Carrillo Daavila, who served as Senior Justice of the Villa de San Felipe, Guanajuato. It changed into he who informed the Crown of the crowning glory of the construction works of the Ojuelos citadel on April 29, 1570.