Jalisco’s Stormy History

by Mildred Boyd

"Jalisco" is thought to come from two Nahuatl words, "xalli" (sand, gravel) and "ixtli" (face or plane), meaning "sandy place" or "arena." The name is certainly apt. Jalisco has been an arena for battle throughout its recorded history.
      Most of us who have made it our home think of Jalisco as it is today a peaceful, pleasant place to spend our retirement years. We boast that our adopted state is the sixth largest in Mexico, containing 31,210 square miles, bordering on the Pacific and six other states and having a population of 7,000,000. However, during the four Centuries after the Spanish conquest, Nueva Galicia, as it was then called, was an almost constant battleground in one bloody dispute after another.

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