Ajijic

Ajijic is a metropolis approximately three miles from the city of Chapala, part of the municipality additionally called Chapala, inside the State of Jalisco, Mexico. Situated on the north shore of Lake Chapala, surrounded by using mountains, Ajijic enjoys a moderate climate year-round. The populace of Ajijic changed into 10,509 as of the 2010 census. Up till the appearance of the Spanish, the area turned into occupied by way of nomadic Indian tribes, possibly the Cocas tribe that settled the northern shore. There seem to be many reasons, and meanings for the names Chapala and Ajijic, all of which can be Indian vicinity names, in all likelihood derived from Nahuatl, the local language of the location.

Ajijic's populace of 10,509 excludes the masses of site visitors from Guadalajara who spend weekends and vacations there. Many retired Americans and Canadians now live in Ajijic, approximately 1,000 complete-time and some other seven hundred in the course of the winter months. As a result of those overseas citizens and site visitors, Ajijic has severa art galleries, fashion and curio shops, in addition to eating places and mattress and breakfast motels. The Lake Chapala Society on the grounds of the former estate of Neill James in primary Ajijic has about three,000 in general overseas contributors.