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Yahualica de González Gallo

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Yahualica de González Gallo
ceety
Location o the ceety in Jalisco
Location o the ceety in Jalisco
Yahualica de González Gallo is located in Mexico
Yahualica de González Gallo
Yahualica de González Gallo
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 20°59′N 103°48′W / 20.983°N 103.800°W / 20.983; -103.800
Kintra Mexico
StateJalisco
Area
 • Total520.3 km2 (200.9 sq mi)
Population
 (2008)
 • Total37,920
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central Staundart Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (Central Daylicht Time)

Yahualica is a ceety in the north o Jalisco, Mexico.

The name Yahualica is derivit frae the indigenous name Ayahuallican, Yahualican, Ahualica or Yagualica, meanin "land surroondit bi hills".

Yahualica covers some 520.75 square kilometers an shares borders wi the state o Zacatecas.

History

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By 1165 the region's inhabitants wur the Tecuexes, who later focht the Aztecs for control o the territory.

In aboot 1530 the Spaingie, led bi Cristóbal de Oñate, conquered the region.

Transportation

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Yahualica is servit bi bus an taxi services, as well as heich-gates leadin intae an oot o Yahualica an throughoot the ceety. The heichgate transit seestem includes México Federal Heich-gate 71 an Jalisco 225 (Jal 225) which run entirely in the municipality. México 71, soothboond, leads tae Tepatitlán/Cuquío an northboond tae Nochistlán/Aguascalientes. Jalisco 225 runs east towards the touns o Huisquilco, El Durazno, San Isidro, an Pastores.

Renowned fowk born in Yahualica

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Yahualica in fiction

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Yahualica is the settingfor the novel Al filo del agua, written bi Agustín Yáñez

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