San Martin de Hidalgo

San Martin Hidalgo is a metropolis and municipality in the Lagunas Region of the state of Jalisco, Mexico. It is placed about 64 km southwest of Guadalajara. According to the II Population and Housing Count of 2005, the municipality had 24,127 inhabitants. In the pre-Hispanic generation it was referred to as Huitzquilic, that is interpreted as "Place of Thistles"; however in 1883 it acquired its present day call Its territorial extension is 324.57 km² and the population is specially committed to the tertiary zone.

Before the conquest become a small city referred to as Huitzquilic and turned into subject to the cacicazgo of Ameca. In the 12th century, an Aztec tribe from the tepehuales branch handed thru those areas, heading towards Zacatula part of this tribe stayed right here. When the Peninsulares arrived, they found a rancheria that stretched north to Las Animas; on the south to Los Chorros; to the east to an orchard and the neighborhood of the Green Cross; and to the west till the middle of El Llano pasture.