Yahualican

Yahualican was a Tecuexe chiefdom in the Altos highlands of northeastern Jalisco, one reading of its Nahuatl name being house of fog.

Before the Spanish arrived, a woman governed the chiefdom. In April 1530 its people greeted Nuño de Guzmán's captain Cristóbal de Oñate with fruit and game and submitted peacefully. Local tradition holds that the conquistador Pedro de Alvarado was crushed by his horse near the town during the Mixtón War of 1541 and died of his injuries. Yahualican became an encomienda, and work on its church began in 1542.