History of Jalisco

thumb|right|400px|Chichimeca peoples in Central Mexico at the start of the [[Chichimeca War ]] thumb|Aridoamerica|300x300px Chichimeca () is the name that the Nahua peoples of Mexico generically applied to nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples who were established in present-day Bajío region of Mexico. Chichimeca carried the same meaning as the Roman term "barbarian" that described Germanic tribes. The name, with its pejorative sense, was adopted by the Spanish Empire. "For the Spanish, the Chichimecas were a wild, nomadic people who lived north of the Valley of Mexico. They had no fixed dwelling p

state in present-day central Mexico (c. 1300-1530)

province & indendancy in New Spain, Spain

16th-century war between the Spanish Empire and indigenous peoples of Mexico

1811 battle

The Guachichil, Cuauchichil, or Quauhchichitl are an exonym for an Indigenous people of Mexico. Prior to European contact, they occupied the most extensive territory of all the Indigenous Chichimeca tribes in pre-Columbian central Mexico.

thumb|Entrance to the small town of Oconahua, Jalisco, located in the Etzatlan municipality. Oconahua is a small town in the Mexican state of Jalisco. It is a Delegation of the municipality of Etzatlán. The population was 2,360 according to the 2020 census.