Etzatlan

Etzatlan was a lordship in the valleys of western Jalisco. Before the Spanish conquest, its valley had fallen to Tarascan power after ten years of border wars.

In 1524 Francisco Cortes de San Buenaventura received its submission and assigned it as an encomienda. A Franciscan convent began in 1534, and Etzatlan became a villa in 1537. During the Mixton War in 1541 Pedro de Alvarado passed through; the friar Juan Calero, killed in the rising, was buried in the convent.