Huaxtla

Huaxtla lies in the mountainous country of the Sierra Madre, in the eastern Nayarit region. The steep valleys and wooded ridges belong to a wider homeland of the Wixárika, also known as Huichol, whose communities extend into neighboring Jalisco and Zacatecas. Spanish missions reached parts of this rugged region in the seventeenth century, including Huajimic in 1610 and Camotlán in 1642. The mountains continued to link communities across a landscape cut by deep river valleys.