But they resisted, so Jorge Simón had the idea of setting fire to the Tepeltac neighborhood to force the indigenous people to emigrate.

The group that founded La Barca was distinguished by its multi-colored clothing and by playing an instrument called chirimia.

On November 11, 1810, the liberator Miguel Hidalgo passed through this town with his army that came from the victory obtained in the Monte de las Cruces and was heading to Guadalajara to join with the insurgent José Antonio Torres, who had taken the city.

In recent years it became a popular municipality due to its multiple sightings of alleged extraterrestrial beings near Technical High School No.

In the second canton it shows the figures of an ear of corn, a wheat spike, a bull, a cow, a tractor running on the furrows of a field.

By timbre or crest, a double-headed eagle of brown color, that wears a golden crown encrusted with gems.

In its claws the bird holds a golden ribbon where the official name of the municipality of ZAPOTLAN DEL REY is read.

The shield was designed by engineer Abel Morales Villaseñor and citizen José Martín Solís Godínez.

The Hill of La Coronita alludes to the site where the first inhabitants of Zapotlán, who belonged to the Naho Tecuexes, settled.

The double-headed eagle, the crown and the gold ribbon allude to the Spanish conquest of this place, in 1529, by Pedro Almíndez Chirinos.

Zapotlán del Rey is located in the Southeast area of Jalisco, between the geographical coordinates 20°24′00″ to 20°34′00″ of north latitude and 102°45′30″ to 103°04′30″ of west longitude; at a height of 5085 feet over sea level (1550 meters).

The subsoil is formed by acid extrusive rocks, volcanic breccia and tuff in the upper parts; in the hills and ridges of the lowlands there are conglomerates, sandstones and soils of lake formation.

In the hills and slopes the composition of the soils is of predominant types Feozem Haplic and Luvic, associated with Vertisol Pelic; in the lower parts there is Ferric Luvisol with Eutric Planosol.

In the central region of the municipality is located the La Colonia dam, and to the north, the Rincón de Chila spring.

Its vegetation is basically made up of pine, oak, natural pastures, kidneywood, and tepehuaje, without actually forming wooded areas.

Deers, rabbits, hares, squirrels, some reptiles, and smaller species, as well as a great variety of birds, inhabit this region.

In the municipality, out of town, there is a tequila distiller and bottler called Destiladora de Agave Hacienda Los Huajes.