Purification

Purification is a locality and additionally a municipality of the South Coast Region of the nation of Jalisco, Mexico. It is considered the first city founded by way of the Spaniards in Jalisco. The conquest of this vicinity is due to Francisco Cortes de San Buenaventura, within the year of 1525, closing in the province of New Spain. Nuno Beltran de Guzman stripped him of those lands and annexed them to Nueva Galicia. In 1535 he sent Captain Juan Fernandez de Hijar y Sellan to the province of Tuito y Coronados to find an area to locate a village.

Coming from Compostela, Nuno de Guzman based the Villa de Purificacion on February 2, 1533 within the Tecomatlan valley, and the primary chapel that was in the now nation of Jalisco. The identify of alcalde mayor entrusted it to Juan Fernandez de Hijar. In 1650 a terrible plague or matlazahue ravaged the region and exterminated heaps of aborigines. From the end of Chamela, known as by the peninsulares de Juan Gallego, at the eve of all the Saints of 1542 he left for the expedition of Ruy Lopez de Villalobos to the Philippines.