Municipality of Nochistlán de Mejía

Nochistlán is one of the 58 municipalities in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. Founded by the Caxcanes, it was also the first site of Guadalajara in Mexico. In the 2005 census the Municipality of Nochistlán reported a population of 26,195. Of these, 15,322 lived in the municipal seat, Nochistlán, and the remainder lived in surrounding rural communities. The first news that we have regarding the natives of these lands points to the Tecuexes. These people established settlements around 1000 A.D. Later in the 12th century a new group of people moved in, these people were called Caxcanes and they were from the valley in Tuitlán, which is now found in the Municipality of Villanueva, Zacatecas. The Caxcanes established Nochistlán by driving...