The municipality of Villa González Ortega is located at an elevation between 2,000 and 2,400 metres (6,600–7,900 ft) on the Mexican Plateau in southeastern Zacatecas.

It borders the Zacatecan municipalities of Noria de Ángeles to the south, Ojocaliente to the southwest, and General Pánfilo Natera to the northwest.

[4] Villa González Ortega is situated in an area that was originally inhabited by the Salinero tribe of the Guachichil, one of the Chichimeca nations.

[5] On 29 November 1922,[11] the municipality was renamed in honour of Jesús González Ortega, commander of the Liberal forces in the Reform War, and governor of Zacatecas from 1858 to 1864.

[5] The municipal government of Villa González Ortega comprises a president, a councillor (Spanish: síndico), and ten trustees (regidores), six elected by relative majority and four by proportional representation.

[1] There are 31 inhabited localities in the municipality,[2] of which two are classified as urban:[14] The main economic activities in Villa González Ortega are agriculture and livestock farming.