Chiquilistlan

Chiquilistlan is a town and municipality in the nation of Jalisco, Mexico. It is placed within the southeast of the state, within the Sierra de Amula Region; 75 kilometers southeast of Guadalajara. Its call manner Place of Cicadas, its territorial extension is 432.31 km2. According to information from the INEGI 2010 the municipality has 5814 population and they're mainly dedicated to the number one area. The first population was Cocas and Caxcanes, belonged to the dominion of Tzaullan.

In the struggle of the Salitre they participated next to the king of Colima, who took price of the aid with the aid of subjugating them and forcing them to pay tribute. The first Spaniards who settled in the metropolis belonged to the Vizcaino families. During the colony it becomes stay of Sayula, head of the Province of Avalos. Even on the quit of the final century the perfect authority exercised among the natives the eldest, they known as him Prioste and obeyed his orders submissively. In 1563 the viceroy Luis de Velasco granted them the marking of boundaries to peacefully very own their lands, appointing Juan de Avina Espinoza to hold it out.