Union de Tula

Union de Tula is a town and municipality in the Sierra de Amula vicinity of the nation of Jalisco, Mexico. This area earlier than the conquest turned into populated by means of natives who relied on the kingdom of Amollan or Amula. The conquest turned into made via Captain Francisco Cortes de San Buenaventura in 1524. He figured in the encomienda of Pedro Gomez and Martin Monje that covered the complete province of Tenamaxtlan.

During the eighteenth and early 19th centuries, in an area of small valleys among Tenamaxtlan and Autlan, several haciendas took strength: San Clemente, Santa Ana, San Cristobal and Santa Rosa. San Clemente turned into the most essential and self-sufficient, however the proprietors of the last haciendas determined to organization together to locate a metropolis with diverse purposes, together with securing labor for their lands and concentrating several offerings in one area. Thus, on May 28, 1821, the longed for city was based, which the four founding households determined to call Union of TVLA, owing the TVLA to the primary letters of these families: Topete, Villasenor, Lazcano and Arreola.