Ahualulco de Mercado
Ahualulco de Mercado is a city and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 274 km2.
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 21,465.[2]
Name origin
Ahualulco comes from the Nahuatl word Ayahualolco which means "place of water crowned" or "place around the water."
Geography
Location
Ahualulco de Mercado is located in central Jalisco, at coordinates 20° 37'20" to 20° 46'10" north latitude and 103° 52'00" to 104º 04'30" west longitude.
The municipality is bordered on the north by the municipalities of Etzatlán, San Juanito de Escobedo and Tequila, on the east by the town of Teuchitlán, on the south by the municipalities Teuchitlán and Ameca, and on the west by the municipalities of Ameca and Etzatlán. It lies on the road from El Refugio to San Marcos and is the most populous town and tourism in this area.
Weather
The weather is semi-arid with dry winter and spring, and semi-warm, no well-defined thermal change for winter. The average annual temperature is 21.3 °C, with a high of 29.7 °C and minimum 13 °C. The rainfall occurs between the months of June and July, having a mean of 871.4 mm precipitation, and reaching up to 1,100 during the rainy season. The average annual frost days is 8. The prevailing winds are north towards the northwest.
References
- ^ Citypopulation.de Population of Ahualulco de Mercado municipality with localities
- ^ "Ahualulco de Mercado". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on June 2, 2007. Retrieved April 13, 2009.
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- Guadalajara
- Ocotlán
- Puerto Vallarta
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- Acatic
- Acatlán de Juárez
- Ahualulco de Mercado
- Amacueca
- Amatitán
- Ameca
- Arandas
- Atemajac de Brizuela
- Atengo
- Atenguillo
- Atotonilco El Alto
- Atoyac
- Autlán de Navarro
- Ayotlán
- Ayutla
- Bolaños
- Cabo Corrientes (El Tuito)
- Cañadas de Obregón
- Casimiro Castillo
- Chapala
- Chimaltitán
- Chiquilistlán
- Cihuatlán
- Cocula
- Colotlán
- Concepción de Buenos Aires
- Cuautitlán de García Barragán
- Cuautla
- Cuquío
- Degollado
- Ejutla
- El Arenal
- El Grullo
- El Limón
- El Salto
- Encarnación de Díaz
- Etzatlán
- Gómez Farías (San Sebastián del Sur)
- Guachinango
- Guadalajara
- Hostotipaquillo
- Huejúcar
- Huejuquilla El Alto
- Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos
- Ixtlahuacán del Río
- Jalostotitlán
- Jamay
- Jesús María
- Jilotlán de los Dolores
- Jocotepec
- Juanacatlán
- Juchitlán
- La Barca
- La Huerta
- La Manzanilla de La Paz
- Lagos de Moreno
- Magdalena
- Mascota
- Mazamitla
- Mexticacan
- Mezquitic
- Mixtlán
- Ocotlán
- Ojuelos de Jalisco
- Pihuamo
- Poncitlán
- Puerto Vallarta
- Quitupan
- San Cristóbal de la Barranca
- San Diego de Alejandría
- San Gabriel
- San Ignacio Cerro Gordo
- San Juan de los Lagos
- San Juanito de Escobedo (Antonio Escobedo)
- San Julián
- San Marcos
- San Martín de Bolaños
- San Martín de Hidalgo
- San Miguel el Alto
- San Sebastián del Oeste
- Santa María del Oro
- Santa María de los Ángeles
- Sayula
- Tala
- Talpa de Allende
- Tamazula de Gordiano
- Tapalpa
- Tecalitlán
- Techaluta de Montenegro
- Tecolotlán
- Tenamaxtlán
- Teocaltiche
- Teocuitatlán de Corona
- Tepatitlán de Morelos
- Tequila
- Teuchitlán
- Tizapan El Alto
- Tlajomulco de Zúñiga
- Tlaquepaque
- Tolimán
- Tomatlán
- Tonalá
- Tonaya
- Tonila
- Totatiche
- Tototlán
- Tuxcacuesco
- Tuxcueca
- Tuxpan
- Unión de San Antonio
- Unión de Tula
- Valle de Guadalupe
- Valle de Juárez
- Villa Corona
- Villa Guerrero
- Villa Hidalgo
- Villa Purificación
- Yahualica de González Gallo
- Zacoalco de Torres
- Zapopan
- Zapotiltic
- Zapotitlán de Vadillo
- Zapotlán del Rey
- Zapotlán el Grande
- Zapotlanejo
- Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila
- Barranca de Oblatos
- Bosque Mesófilo Nevado de Colima
- Chamela-Cuixmala
- Cuenca Alimentadora del Distrito Nacional de Riego 043 Estado de Nayarit
- La Primavera
- Laguna de Sayula
- Sierra de Manantlán
- Sierra de Quila
- Vallarta Botanical Gardens
- Volcán Nevado de Colima