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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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)
By Decree Number 22228, of 30 May 2008, the Jalisco State Congress shortened the term of governor, for the only time, from six years, to five years nine months and five days, in such a way that according to Transitory Article Six, subsection (c), the governor "will take office on 1 March 2013 and will conclude his mandate on 5 December 2018."
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.
On May 14, 2007, the Universidad de Guadalajara paid homage to Fernando del Paso by naming the library and media center in Ocotlán, Jalisco, the "Biblioteca Fernando del Paso". This library is the largest in the western region of Mexico with a collection of 120,000 volumes and a capacity for 800 simultaneous users.
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.