Etzatlán

Municipality and town in Jalisco, Mexico

Etzatlán is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 337.8 km².

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 17,564.

It is home to the world’s largest crochet canopy, as certified by The Guinness Book of World Records.^[2]

In 2020, the Chilean writer José Baroja dedicated a story entitled Etzatlán to this.^[3]

Localities

Notable people

• Luis Felipe Lomelí (1975-), writer
• Carlos Quintero Arce (1920-2016), was a Mexican prelate and at his death he was the oldest Mexican bishop^[4]

References

1. Citypopulation.de
2. "Etzatlán". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on March 31, 2007. Retrieved April 13, 2009.
3. "Etzatlán, por José Baroja". letras.mysite.com. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
4. Catholic Hierarchy

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