Azqueltán is a small settlement located on the banks of the Bolaños River in the municipality of Villa Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico.
"Azqueltán" (reduced from earlier "Atzqueltlán") means "land of many ants" in the Tepehuán language.
According to John Alden Mason, the village was originally settled by a group of indigenous Tepehuán who migrated to the isolated canyon location in the 13th or 14th Century AD following droughts in the northern Sierra Madre Occidental and Arizona during that time.
The Tepecano language was studied during the period 1911-13 by Mason,[1] and in 1965 and 1979-80 by Dennis Holt.
In more recent years, some Huichol inhabitants from the area west of the Sierra Madre Occidental have settled in the village.