Tecalitlan

Tecalitlan is a municipality and population of the kingdom of Jalisco, Mexico. It is located in the Southeast Region of the nation. Its name comes from Nahuatl and way next to the stone houses; its territorial extension is 1326.44 km2. According to the II Population and Housing Count, the municipality has 16,042 inhabitants and they're specifically devoted to the primary sector. It is positioned within the heart of the vicinity in which mariachi tune was advanced; the most famous exponent of that genre is Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan.

This location turned into conquered by means of Cristobal de Olid and Juan Rodriguez de Villafuerte at the start of 1522, when they have been dispatched by way of Hernan Cortés to explore western Mexico. In 1524, Francisco Cortés de San Buenaventura arrived. The lands where the populace sits belonged to Jilotlan. In 1737 a few aborigines lived in the small town of Tecalitlan, which became then east of the hill of the Cross. That year a few households of Spaniards settled down and the Indians rented lands to them that in 1774 had been denounced as realengas.