Its population neighboring: Capilla de Guadalupe, San Ignacio Cerro Gordo, Arandas, St. Francis of Assisi, and Tototlán Atotonilco.

It is considered that the current home town of San Jose de Gracia, came in the early nineteenth century, when which the brothers Francisco, Salvador, Antonio Rafael and José Antonio Hernández Padilla surname, great grandchildren the said Christopher Hernandez, share these settled land with their families and laborers.

On 19 March 1889 start of the current church building San Jose, giving rise to the initiation of an urban design well defined, being erected as a parish on 15 May 1910, became its first pastor Fermin Padilla.

They are "red soils" characteristic of entire region and encourage the planting of agave cultivation blue for the case of maize in optimal conditions moisture and fertility, provide very good returns.

Plant associations are composed of thornscrub northeast and natural grasslands located east, south-central and west, is observed cloud forest areas of runoff Cerro Chico and Cerro Gordo, are likewise oak forests in the upper part of the hills mentioned, from the height above 2,000 mar.4 level Some species such as rabbit, hare, coyote, fox, skunk, armadillo, deer, reptiles and various birds.