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Jalisco is a popular tourist destination which is filled with beautiful cultural traditions such as mariachis, tequila, Ballet Folklórico, the Mexican Hat Dance, charros, sombreros, and much more. Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán is one of the most important group in the history of mariachi music and it was founded in 1898 by Gaspar Vargas in ...
The name Ocotlan is from Nahuatl and means "among the ocote trees" with the appendage "de Morelos" added in honor of José María Morelos y Pavón.During the colonial period the area was known as Santo Domingo Ocotlán due to the Dominican friars who created a monastery here dedicated to Saint Dominic.
The book's author was requested by Financiera Aceptaciones S.A. (a finance company from Mexico's Banco Serfin), to publish this work for the Mexican public due to the interest of the Mexican Academic circles, it was inspired by his own thesis "Haciendas de Jalisco y aledaños: fincas rústicas de antaño, 1506–1821", a 270 pages work that was made to obtain a Master of Arts degree in Latin ...
Ocotlán, Jalisco; Battle of Ocotlán (1924) Ocotlán de Morelos (Oaxaca) Ocotlán de Juárez (Oaxaca) Ocotlán District (Oaxaca) Asunción Ocotlán (Oaxaca) Magdalena Ocotlán (Oaxaca) San Dionisio Ocotlán (Oaxaca) San Francisco de Ocotlán (Puebla) Ocotlán, Tlaxcala; Virgin of Ocotlán, Marian apparition in 1541; Battle of Ocotlán (1856)
De la Huerta then joined and gave his name to a major military uprising against Obregón. Over half of the army joined De la Huerta's rebellion, with many of Obregón's former comrades in arms now turning on him. Rebel forces massed in Veracruz and Jalisco. [57] In a decisive battle at Ocotlán, Jalisco, Obregón's forces crushed the rebel forces.
Martinez Baracs, Rodrigo. La secuencia Tlaxcalteca. Origenes del culto a Nuestra Senora de Ocotlan. Mexico City: INAH, 2000. Nava Rodriguez, Luis. Historia de Nuestra Senora de Ocotlan. 2nd edition. Tlaxcala: Editoria de periodicos "La Prensa" 1975.---. Historia de Nuestra Senora de Ocotlan. Revised and expanded edition.
Isaura Alcantara Diaz (1924-1968 [1]) was the original innovator, who made pottery with her husband Jesus Aguila Revilla.Prior to this, the ceramics of Ocotlan de Morelos was limited to utilitarian items such as dishes and cookware.
In 1532 Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán sent Captain Juan Fernández de Híjar to the province of El Tuito and crowned them to look for a place in order to found a villa. In this virtue, Fernández de Híjar with 25 soldiers marched south and founded on February 2, 1533 the Villa of Purification in the valley of Tecomatlán and also established the first chapel in the now state of Jalisco.