[2] The first Jesuit priests arrived in the town of Durango after the insurrection of Tepehuana on January 29, 1620, and built new missions in places where they had previously been established.

Franciscan priests built on a small plain near La Sauceda, a mission which they named San Diego de Canatlán.

According to the results presented in the Second Census of Population and Housing in 2005, a total of 77 people who spoke an indigenous language lived in the municipality.

The town offers its residents the services of electricity, water and sewer, parks and gardens, street lighting, recreation center, sports, market, cemetery and public safety.

Plant has a waste water treatment in use, with installed capacity of 33.00 liters per second and the volume sought to 708.684 meters of timber annually.

The existing municipal market, supplies 75% of the towns, the city administers the services of park and gardens, public buildings, sports and recreational units, monuments and fountains.

There is a community museum in the Commonwealth of Gomelia in which most of the new exhibition are remnants of pre-Hispanic cultures, such as arrows, points of obsidian, pottery and a skull taken from a cave that was believed was a ceremonial center, among others.

Festivals Since 1950 takes place between 23 and 30 September of the Apple Fair in Canatlan, at the initiative of Mr. Francisco Treviño Martínez then mayor, helping in the organization by Mr. Baltazar Espinoza, Don Pedro Flores, and Ms. Victoria Villareal Reyes.

The early experiments with red decoration on pots simple brown color can represent a first approach to the ceramic group.

Food: Cheese and butter, roast beef Canatlán style, green chili stew of the Mennonite settlements adjacent to New Ideal, making pork carnitas special recipes of the region.

The number of proportional representation councilors in the municipalities are assigned according to the following pattern: In Canatlán, Cuencamé, Guadalupe Victoria, Mapimí, Name of God, Poanas, Pueblo Nuevo, San Dimas, Santiago Papasquiaro, Tamazula and Tlahualilo, elected new aldermen.

Notable among them is the watermelon Fair in September each year, Religious Celebration of the Divine Shepherd in the community of La Sauceda, is held the first Friday of March.