Mexticacan

Mexticacán was a small chiefdom in the Los Altos highlands of what is now Jalisco. Its Tecuexe inhabitants farmed beneath mountain strongholds and fired pottery at night, earning a name meaning people who work in the moonlight.

The chiefdom fell during the conquest of Nueva Galicia. On Christmas Day 1531 Cristóbal de Oñate, a captain serving Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán, took the town for the Spanish. Mexticacán formed its first council in 1825 and became part of Teocaltiche in 1837.