Founding

Founding of Zapotitlán de Vadillo

municipal seat of Zapotitlán, State of Jalisco, Mexico

542 CE
Mesoamerica and the Caribbean

Zapotitlán de Vadillo is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 305.8 km2.

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 6,345.

The indigenous inhabitants of this area originally spoke the extinct, unclassified Zapoteco and Otomi languages. During the colonial era it was part of the province of Amula.

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