Tepecan

The Tepecano inhabited the mountain country of northern Jalisco and neighboring southern Zacatecas. Their communities lived among the valleys and canyons of the Bolaños River, close to the lands of the Huichol. One of their settlements, Azqueltán, stood deep in the river canyon. Around 1589 or 1590 the Franciscan Juan Gómez founded villages in the region, including Azqueltán and Totatiche. The Tepecano maintained their own language, related to those of the Tepehuan peoples farther north.