Tonala

Tonala is a metropolis and municipality in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area inside the nation of Jalisco in Mexico. With a populace of 374,258, it's miles the fourth biggest metropolis in the state, the opposite three being the alternative major populace centers inside the metro place: Guadalajara, Zapopan, and Tlaquepaque. It is pleasant referred to as a first-rate handcrafts center for Jalisco, in particular pottery, in addition to its very big Thursday and Sunday road marketplace, committed to handcrafts. The call comes from the Nahuatl phrase Tonallan, because of this in which the solar rises.

The metropolis authorized its seal in 1985, designed by Rogelio Contreras Colina. The metropolis began as a Zapotec agreement which latter included Toltec and Nahua migrants, main to a blending of cultures. Another impact have been the nomadic Cocos and Tecuexes, who also lived inside the vicinity. Religious practice centered on gods consisting of Teoplizintli toddler god, Heri and Nayart god of warfare, at the side of Tenaguachi and Tezcatipoca. During the Salitre War in 1510, the Purepecha invaded the location, which at that time was a dominion, but, this effort was defeated.