Xochitepec

Xochitepec was a Tecuexe community on two islands in a lagoon in western Jalisco. Later called Magdalena by the Spaniards, it belonged to the lordship of Etzatlan under the cacique Goaxicar at contact.

Francisco Cortes de San Buenaventura received its submission in 1524, and Cristobal de Onate entered in 1530. Goaxicar rose against the Spaniards in 1538 and fought again in the Mixton War of 1541. After a storm destroyed the island villages, survivors moved ashore, where the church of Santa Maria Magdalena gave the town its name.