Villa Guerrero

Villa Guerrero Municipality is placed within the north of the country of Jalisco, Mexico. Prior to the Spanish conquest, the municipality of Villa Guerrero was inhabited through the indigenous Tepecan. The place becomes conquered with the aid of the Spanish Captain Pedro Almindez Chirino, sent by Nuno Beltran de Guzman in the year 1530. Shortly after the advent of the Spanish into the vicinity, the Huichol migrated to the vicinity's remote canyons and mountains.

The Spanish settlement of the location on the cease of the 16th century brought some of Tlaxcaltec colonizers to the region. In its origins it was named Xonacatic, which means that place of onions, however now not of the suitable for eating onion, but of those generally referred to as chives that are born by me in times of water and in muddy locations. The oldest Spanish land grant within the place become in 1579 to Luis de los Rios Proano. The grant become for about 120 km² within the valley of Juanacatic from the indigenous call for the valley: Xoncacatic, meaning area of the onions. Missions have been founded via the Franciscans in the region inside the latter years of the 16th century.