Zapotlanejo

Zapotlanejo is a town and municipality inside the Mexican nation of Jalisco. According to the 2005 census, there were 55,827 populations inside the municipality. The municipality has a territorial extension of 643.02 km2. The city of Zapotlan turned into previously referred to as Zapotlan de los Tecuexes, alluding to the name of its pre Hispanic inhabitants, the Tecuexes, who installed themselves in the area approximately 1218. Spanish settlement inside the vicinity started out around 1523.

The place's Spanish settlers had been problem to continuous attacks with the aid of Chichimec forces all through the early colonial duration. The municipality's famous Bridge of Calderon became built for the duration of the government of Francisco Calderon Romero 1670 to 1672. The bridge turned into the site of the Battle of the Bridge of Calderon in 1811, which was a key war inside the Mexican War of Independence. In 1860, republican troops led by way of General Ignacio Zaragoza defeated Leonardo Marquez close to the metropolis as he fled from Tepatitlan. In 1824, Zapotlanejo changed into made capital of the Department of Tonala. In 1825, the town changed into made part of the first canton of Jalisco.