Nochistlán de Mejía (municipality)

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Coordinates: 21°48′03″N 102°45′57″W / 21.80083, -102.76583
Nochistlán de Mejía Nochistlán
Location of Nochistlán with in Zacatecas and Mexico
Country	Mexico
State	Zacatecas
Municipal seat	Nochistlán de Mejía
Largest City	Nochistlán de Mejía
Villa de Guadalajara (When settled by Spaniards)	1531^[1]
Founded Municipality	1825
Government
- Municipal President	C. Ramón Jiménez Fuentes PRD
Area
- Total	867 km² (334.8 sq mi)
Population (2005)
- Total	26,195
- Largest City	15,322
Time zone	CST (UTC=6)
Postal Code	99900-99919
Area code(s)	346

Nochistlán is one of the 58 municipalities in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. Founded by the Caxcanes, it was also the first site of Guadalajara in Mexico.

1 Population
2 History
3 Location
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Population

In the 2005 census the Municipality of Nochistlán reported a population of 26,195. ^[2] Of these, 15,322 lived in the municipal seat, Nochistlán, and the remainder lived in surrounding rural communities.

[edit] History

The first news that we have regarding the natives of these lands points to the Tecuexes. These people established settlements around 1000 A.D. Later in the 12th century a new group of people moved in, these people were called Caxcanes and they were from the valley in Tuitlán, which is now found in the Municipality of Villanueva, Zacatecas. The Caxcanes established Nochistlán by driving out the Tecuexes by force.

Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán, on December 3, 1531, hired Juan de Oñate to establish a village in Nochistlán, (now a town in Zacatecas) the village would be named Guadalajara to honor Guzmán for having been born in Guadalajara. Guadalajara was founded in Nochistlán on January 5, having as officials Juan de Oñate, Sancho Ortiz de Zuñiga and Miguel Ibarra. They worked at this project for only 16 months and created the first layout of Guadalajara.