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Poncitlan is a town and municipality within the Cienega Region of the state of Jalisco, Mexico. Poncitlan changed into founded with the aid of a Nahautlaca tribe that came from Aztlan, from 1166 to 1170, when the Spaniards arrived, their inhabitants have been of coca starting place, and that they were ruled via the cacique Ponzehui, Ponzetlan. The conquest of this location became the work of Pedro Almindez Chirinos, commissioned by means of Nuno de Guzman, in February 1530. The cacique received the name of Pedro at baptism and changed into given the surname of Ponce in the likeness of the phrase Ponzitlan.

Before the appearance of the Spaniards, the cacique Chapalac additionally lived in Poncitlan, which, because of disagreement with Ponce, left this city in 1510 and took with him a crowd of families who, after creating a pilgrimage to various cities, settled definitively within the cutting-edge Chapala. . In 1530 he changed into wounded in Cuitzeo Cristobal de Onate whilst he came to the useful resource of Nuno de Guzman who became about to perish in a battle between his forces and the natives.

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