Villa Purificación Municipality

Costa del Sur de Jalisco, sureste de Guadalajara. The population is about 11,300.

• Name — Villa Purificación • Settlement Type — Municipality and town • Mapsize — 200px • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Mexico • Subdivision Type1 — State • Subdivision Name1 — Jalisco • Area Total Km2 — 1848 • Area Blank1 Title — Town • Area Blank1 Km2 — 2.89 • Population As Of — 2020 census • Population Total — 11303 • Population Density Km2 — auto • Population Blank1 Title — Town • Population Blank1 — 5965 • Population Density Blank1 Km2 — auto • Timezone — Central Standard Time • Utc Offset — -6

Villa Purificación has a long history: it was founded by the Spanish on the second of February in 1533, and was the first municipality in Jalisco, founded in 1871 after Mexican independence. Villa Purificación celebrates holidays such as Candlemas, or Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria. The area is also known for its crafts such as ceramics and huaraches. Villa Purificación is mostly agricultural, with people growing crops and raising cattle.

According to the Köppen climate classification, Villa Purificación is in the tropical savanna climate, or Aw. It has hot, humid summers, and dry winters.

In 1532 Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán sent Captain Juan Fernández de Híjar to the province of El Tuito and crowned them to look for a place in order to found a villa. In this virtue, Fernández de Híjar with 25 soldiers marched south and founded on February 2, 1533, the Villa of Purification in the valley of Tecomatlán and also established the first chapel in the now state of Jalisco. Upon the arrival of the Spaniards, Purification belonged to a small province populated by Indians from Saulam, or Sayula, formed by the villages of Tenzitlán, Xirosto, Jew, Pampochin, Amborí, La Silla, Cuxmalán, Carrion and Melahuacan as the headboard. The conquest of this region is due to Francisco Cortés de San Buenaventura, in 1525, remaining within the province.

• Municipal president — Term — Political party — Notes • Rosa Ofelia García Pelayo — 01-01-1983–31-12-1985 — |PRI • Crescencio Michel Michel — 01-01-1986–31-12-1988 — PRI • Ramón N. Pelayo Pelayo — 01-01-1989–1992 — PRI • Pedro Díaz Martínez — 1992–1995 — PAN • Francisco Pelayo García — 1995–1997 — PAN • Salvador Pelayo García — 01-01-1998–31-12-2000 — PRI • Saúl Llamas Romero — 01-01-2001–31-12-2003 — PRI • Iván Manuel García Michel — 01-01-2004–31-12-2006 — PAN • Carlos Antonio Pelayo García — 01-01-2007–31-12-2009 — PRI — Results were reverted in favor of the PRI by a higher electoral authority, due to cheating and trickery performed by some members of the National Action Party (PAN, Partido Acción Nacional) at a voting booth • Moisés Domínguez Esparza — 01-01-2010–30-09-2012 — PAN • Valentín Rodríguez Peña — 01-10-2012–30-09-2015 — PRI PVEM — Coalition "Compromise for Jalisco" • Édgar Manuel Medina Reyes — 01-10-2015–30-09-2018 — PAN • Moisés Brambila Pelayo — 01-10-2018–05-03-2021 — MC • María Guadalupe Sánchez Zavalza — 01-10-2021– — MC