Jerez

Jerez is the municipal seat of the municipality of Jerez in the Mexican nation of Zacatecas. It is positioned in the middle of the country, 56 km southwest of the city of Zacatecas. It is a town of the country with traveller and cultural importance. Jerez has usually been characterized by the splendor of its farms and has lately been blanketed inside the program Magical Towns, by the Ministry of Tourism, for its traditions, customs, legends and architecture. Before the first incursion in 1531 via the Spaniards, those Zacatecan lands were already inhabited by way of the Chichimecas,

Huachichiles and Zacatecos, this area covered places and settlements which include Susticacan and others not less than the south, which had been observed by means of the Spaniards commanded by using Cristobal de Onate, who changed into seeking out treasured metals at the slopes of the hills of the valley, inside the first Spanish incursion into this Zacatecan vicinity in 1531. In 1811, Jose Francisco Alvarez, the royal leader who had been wounded, arrived in Jerez from Matehuala, in addition to the military chaplain Francisco Inguanzo.