Xalisco

For the state now spelt "Jalisco", see Jalisco.

Xalisco (Spanish pronunciation: [xaˈlisko]) is a city and its surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Nayarit. The city had a population of 21,899 in the 2005 census while the municipality has an area of 290.6 km² (112.2 sq mi) and a population of 42,893.^[1] The municipality lies adjacent to the south side of Tepic, the state capital, and is part of the Tepic metropolitan area.^[2]

Xalisco
Municipality
Country	Mexico
State	Nayarit

Geography

Formerly known as Jalisco, this municipality is located 6.4 km. southwest of Tepic. In the north it bounds the municipality of Tepic, in the south the municipality of Compostela; in the east the municipality of Santiago Ixcuintla and in the west the municipality of San Blas.^[3] The total area is 290.60 square kilometers, which makes it the smallest of the 20 municipalities that make up the state.

Over half of the municipal territory is mountainous with one peak, Cerro Alto, reaching 2,240 meters. There are several small rivers and streams of short length.

In the upper elevations there are still conifers and oaks, but over-forestry and long years of wood gathering for cooking have seriously depleted the natural cover. There are still deer, badgers, armadillos, and javelinas in more remote locations.

Economy

Due to the proximity to Tepic the economy is less agriculturally based than many municipalities in the state. Among the most important crops were: rice, corn, avocados, lemons, oranges, bananas, coffee, cherries, and sugarcane.

Tourism and festivals

In the town there are the ruins of a colonial hacienda and a museum with pre-Columbian artifacts. The most important festival is that of Asunción de la Virgen María, celebrated on 15 August, at the beginning of the corn harvest. It is also known as the “La Feria del Elote”, or Corn Fair.

Opium and black tar heroin

The area produces opium poppies which are tapped for gum which is processed into black tar heroin and smuggled into the United States. Several hundred immigrants from Xalisco, part of a larger number still involved in retail heroin distribution, are incarcerated in the United States.^[4]

Toponymy

The origin of the name Xalisco comes from the Nahuatl Xalixko: "xal-li" (sand), "ix-telotl" (eye) and ko (place); Place of the sandy eye.

Sister cities

Xalisco has one sister city, as designated by Sister Cities International:

• Taos, New Mexico, U.S.

Government

Municipal presidents

Municipal president	Term	Political party	Notes
Ambrosio Robles[5]	1917
Arcadio García Munguía	1918
Santos Rentería	1920
Ambrosio Robles	1921
J. Jesús G. Inda	1922
Higinio Pérez	1924
Margarito Romero	1925–1927
Luis López R.	1927–1929
Antonio Magaña Audelo	1930	PNR
Hilario Casanova	1931	PNR
Santos Rentería	1932	PNR
Nemesio Coronado	1933	PNR
Cándido López Ordaz	1934	PNR
Genaro Pérez	1935	PNR
Sebastián Robles	1936	PNR
Juan Casillas	1937–1939	PNR
Ramón Gutiérrez Páez	1939–1941	PRM
Porfirio Flores R.	1941–1943	PRM
Ramón Gutiérrez Páez	1943–1945	PRM
Leandro Ocampo C.	1945	PRM
Bonifacio Inda	1946–1949	PRI
Leandro Ocampo C.	1949–1951	PRI
J. Trinidad Ramírez	1951	PRI	Acting municipal president
Ramón Gutiérrez	1952–1955	PRI
Juan Nepomuceno Guillén	1955–1958	PRI
Catarino Bautista Gutiérrez	1958–1961	PRI
Santiago Ocampo Castillo	1961–1963	PRI
Juan Francisco Lerma Martínez	1964–1969	PRI
Antonio Gutiérrez Montaño	1970–1973	PRI
Rafael Montes Isiorda	1973–1976	PRI
José de Jesús Pérez Casillas	1976–1979	PRI
Pedro Rico Dueñas	1979–1981	PRI
J. Trinidad Hernández A.	1981–1984	PRI
Ramón Peraza Camarena	1984–1985	PRI
Raúl Guillén Íñiguez	1985–1987	PRI
Eutimio Isiordia Mojica	1987–1990	PRI
J. Jesús García Nolasco	1990–1993	PRI
Rafael Rivera Monroy	1993–1996	PRI
Armando García Jiménez[6]	17-09-1996–16-09-1999	PRI
Óscar Sánchez Almada[7]	17-09-1999–16-09-2002	PAN PRD PT PRS	Alliance for Change
Isabel Isiordia Aquino[8]	17-09-2002–16-09-2005	PRI
Juan Fernando Carrillo Noyola[9]	17-09-2005–16-09-2008	PRI
Gilberto López Ruelas[10]	17-09-2008–16-09-2011	PRI Panal
Heriberto Castañeda Ulloa[11]	17-09-2011–16-09-2014	PAN
José Luis Lerma Mercado[12]	17-09-2014–16-09-2017	PAN
Nadia Alejandra Ramírez López[13]	17-09-2017–16-09-2021	PAN PRD PT PRS	Coalition "Together for You"
Heriberto Castañeda Ulloa[14]	17-09-2021–16-09-2024	PT PVEM Panal Morena
Anabel Margarita Guerrero Benítez[15]	17-09-2024–	Morena PVEM PT Fuerza por México

References

1. Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 Archived 2013-04-06 at the Wayback Machine INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
2. Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México (Spanish) Archived May 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
3. Map of Nayarit
4. Cassidy, Megan; Lurie, Gabrielle (July 10, 2023). "This is how San Francisco's open-air drug dealers work". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
5. "Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México. Estado de Nayarit. Municipio de Xalisco" (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2021.
6. "IEENayarit. Elección de Ayuntamientos 1996. Resumen de resultados por municipio. Xalisco. PRI: 4882 votos. PRD: 2985 votos. PAN: 799 votos. Partido del Trabajo (PT): 301 votos" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2021.
7. "IEENayarit. Elección de Ayuntamientos 1999. Resumen de resultados por municipio. Xalisco. PAN-PRD-PT-Partido de la Revolución Socialista de Nayarit (PSR): 6744 votos. PRI: 5889 votos" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2021.
8. "IEENayarit. Elección de Ayuntamientos 2002. Resumen de resultados por municipio. Xalisco. PRI: 7640 votos. PAN: 4702 votos. PRD: 567 votos. PT: 515 votos" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2021.
9. "IEENayarit. Elección de Ayuntamientos 2005. Resumen de resultados por municipio. Xalisco. PRI: 9600 votos. Partido Nueva Alianza (Panal): 4309 votos. PAN: 905 votos" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2021.
10. "IEENayarit. Elección de Ayuntamientos 2008. Resumen de resultados por municipio. Xalisco. PRI-Partido Nueva Alianza (Panal): 7361 votos. PRD-PVEM: 4445 votos. PAN: 987 votos. PT: 972 votos" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2021.
11. "IEENayarit. Elección de Ayuntamientos 2011. Resumen de resultados por municipio. Xalisco. PAN: 10193 votos. PRI-PVEM-Partido Nueva Alianza (Panal): 7864 votos. PRD: 1695 votos. PT-Convergencia: 435 votos" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2021.
12. "IEENayarit. Elección de Ayuntamientos 2014. Resumen de resultados por municipio. Xalisco. PAN: 11464 votos. PRI-PVEM-Partido Nueva Alianza (Panal): 8583 votos. PT: 509 votos. MC: 374 votos" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2021.
13. "IEENayarit. Elección de Ayuntamientos 2017. Resumen de resultados por municipio. Xalisco. PAN-PRD-PT-Partido de la Revolución Socialista de Nayarit (PRS): 9373 votos. PRI: 4344 votos. Morena: 2476 votos. MC: 1007 votos. Partido Nueva Alianza (Panal): 415 votos. PVEM: 274 votos" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2021.
14. "Resultados Elecciones 2021: Así quedarían gobernados los municipios de Nayarit. Xalisco: Heriberto Castañeda Ulloa" (in Spanish). 10 June 2021. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
15. "Elección–Presidencias y Sindicaturas. Proceso Electoral Local Ordinario 2024. Cómputos Municipales. Votación por Partido Político, Coalición y Candidatura Común. Xalisco" (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Estatal Electoral de Nayarit (IEEN). Retrieved 2 November 2024.

Sources

• L.A. Times: Xalisco heroin trade part 1
• L.A. Times: Xalisco heroin trade part 2
• L.A. Times: Xalisco heroin trade part 3
• Quinones, S. (2015). Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press.

External links

• Ayuntamiento de Xalisco Official website

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