Xilotlan

Xilotlan, later called Jilotlán, lies in the warm mountain country between Jalisco and Michoacán. Before the Spanish conquest it was an Indigenous centre with numerous dependent communities, subject to Tamazula. The Spaniards conquered the district in 1523 and established a town in 1532. In 1795 it passed from the jurisdiction of Michoacán to Nueva Galicia; the older settlement stood between the later town and Tepalcatepec.