Tonala

Tonala was the centre of a lordship in the valleys of western Mexico, east of the later city of Guadalajara. Its authority extended over communities including Tlaxomulco, Tetlán and Tala. In 1530 Nuño de Guzmán’s expedition reached Tonala, where a woman remembered as Cihualpilli Tzapotzintli ruled. The conquest drew the lordship and its neighbours into the expanding Spanish dominion of Nueva Galicia.

The later city of Guadalajara also lies here.