Tonila

Tonila is a municipality of the state of Jalisco, Mexico. It is located in the Southern Region of the kingdom. Its call comes from Nahuatl and means 'place wherein the solar rises'. Its territorial extension is 225, 99 km². According to the II Population and Housing Count, the municipality has 7179 inhabitants, who're specifically committed to the number one quarter. Tonila turned into a city of Tlahuica Indians depending on the cacicazgo of Zapotitlan. His first seat turned into to the north of the current one, in a place known as Cauzentla, inside the location of the Colima volcano.

Tonila become conquered in 1524 by means of Captain Francisco Cortés de San Buenaventura. Subsequently, Tonila changed into protected in the Province of Avalos. In 1598 he had eleven married aborigines and widowers, and belonged to the doctrine of Tuxpan. At the time of Independence, the parish priest Basilio Monroy commanded a military to persecute the insurgents. These, in reprisal, sacked the city and burned the parish on January 27, 1815. At the stop of 1858, General Antonio Rojas hanged the parish priest of Jilotlan de los Dolores, Praxedis Garcia, whom he cruelly tormented earlier than.