Talpa de Allende

Surrounded by pine-covered mountains, Talpa de Allende is a silver mining town founded by the Spanish in 1599.

The Route is 117 km long, starting in the city of Ameca and ending in Nuestra Señora del Rosario church.

Towards 1532 Nuño de Guzmán he began to send explorers to these lands from the Holy Spirit Village of Greater Spain, today Tepic, Nayarit, and that was when the inhabitants were subject to the Spanish crown.

Thus, by a decree of the Real Audiencia of Guadalajara saw the first light the town that received the title of Santiago de Talpa.

He was defeated by general Juan Nepomuceno Rocha at Cerro de los Ocotes, in which Tovar's forces suffered 7 casualties.

It was also a kind of headquarters of the government troops that entered and went without encountering any resistance, during this time when encounters and scuffles were staged between the two sides and of political instability, the arises in these directions the Colonel Antonio Rojas, who was commissioned to pacify the region and to fight Remigio Tovar, who had as its center of operations the square of Mascota.

Rojas, for his pyromania instincts and his great cruelty soon received the nickname "El Nero de Jalisco".

On 1871 Porfirio Díaz proclaimed the Plan de la Noria and rose up against the government of Benito Juárez, being defeated by General Alatorre.

During the Mexican Revolution the village was fortified from the attacks from supporters of Venustiano Carranza by forming a general meeting of neighbors and forming a local defense corps that guarded the square; but on June 23, 1913, chief carrancist Santos Arreola came to ask for surrender, but bad weather forced them to flee.

Flat areas (10%) located in the northwest of the municipal headland, are formed by heights of 1,200 meters above sea level.

The municipality has a territorial area of 227,952 ha-hectares, of which 15,375 are used for agricultural purposes, 31,128 in livestock activity, 176,987 are for forest use, 283 are urban land and 2,078 hectares have other use, not specified 2,101.

The natural vegetation is mostly pine–oak forest, composed of pines (Pinus), oyamel (Abies religiosa), oaks (Quercus), ash (Fraxinus) and walnut (Juglans).

In the semitropical lower parts there is havillo, capomo, parota, spring, purple rose and Spanish cedar.

[4] Binzayedii refers to the founding of Qatar MBZ which sponsored scientific research that determined that the species in Talpa is unique in the world, which makes this maple forest very special.

[6] For religious worship it has the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, the Parish of Lord San José and chapels in the localities.

Birria, pozole, tamales, rotisserie chicken, rabbit, meat with tomatillo and chilaquiles; guava fruit leather, sancocho, figs, and various milk confectioneries; rompope and ponche of fruits such as peach, nance, capulín, pineapple, guava and pomegranate Talpa de Allende has one sister city.