Huanusco

Huanusco was founded shortly after the Mixtón War fought between 1540 and 1542 between the Caxcanes and other semi-nomadic Indigenous people of the area of north western Mexico against Spanish invaders, including their Aztec and Tlaxcalan allies.

During the colony, the municipality settled by Tlaxcaltecan Indians who were brought by Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza to replace the natives who were transferred to the Jalisco coast, because it represented a serious risk of insurrection.

The few natives who remained hidden there will take a long time to engage in the usual work of the place, convinced after arduous talks by the Franciscan religious, who had been taught the mission to evangelize them.

Once again established and evangelized, the natives erected their capillary and were awarded La Purísima Concepción and San Francisco de Asís by patrons.

The most representative building of the municipality of Huanusco is, invariably, the temple erected to the Patron Saint Francisco de Asís, whose construction began in 1970.

In his book The church of Huanusco, Leobardo Viramontes Flores, says that << the front [...] It is of the Tuscan order in its columns, as well as its altar, but Corinthian as far as Asis capitals are concerned.

In addition to the municipal seat and the communities mentioned above, we find in Huanusco several tourist places such as the Dam and the Eye of Water, both on the banks of the Juchipila river as well as in the mountains that surround it, the Matrera Pile, Charco de la Campana, The Hillside of the Sálate; El Charco de las Figuras, Hot Springs in La Higuera and Los Ahuehuetes.

This man was a soldier who participated in several combats; In 1920 he was appointed head of the committee in the land petition, which led him to the enmity of the landowners and cristeros of the region.

He is a character who has numerous unpublished books (didactic, historical, anecdotal), which have served as a basis for shaping the history of Huanusco and Jalpa; that is, he was the first historian of these municipalities.

In this work, María de Lourdes Franco Bagnouls, compiler of the stories, tells us the author: manages an extensive record of human behavior and condition, as well as the aesthetic orientations at his disposal; in the same way that it raises the most negative situations, it also reaches moments of extreme sublimity.