The Altos de Jalisco, or the Jaliscan Highlands, is a geographic and cultural region in the eastern part of the Mexican state of Jalisco, famed as a bastion of Mexican culture, cradling traditions from Tequila production to Charrería equestrianism. Los Altos are part of the greater Bajío region of Mexico.
Image: Templo El Calvario (cropped)
Image: Templo del Sagrado Corazon de Jesús (cropped)
Image: Fachada de la Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos 02 (cropped)
Image: El puente que se pasa por arriba
Jalisco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in western Mexico and is bordered by six states, Nayarit, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Michoacán, and Colima. Jalisco is divided into 125 municipalities, and its capital and largest city is Guadalajara.
Guachimontones archaelogical site, built and inhabited by the Teuchitlán culture from 300 BCE to 450 CE.
Jaliscan ceramic warrior, c. 100 BCE to 150 CE.
Depiction of the conquest of Jalisco by Spaniard Cristóbal de Olid and his Tlaxcalan allies, as depicted in the Lienzo de Tlaxcala of 1522.
Monument to Beatriz Hernández, a Spanish settler who helped establish the city of Guadalajara in 1542.
