San Marcos, Jalisco

San Marcos
San Marcos
Municipality and town
	Location of the municipality in Jalisco
	San Marcos Location in Mexico
	Coordinates: 20°47′N 104°11′W / 20.783°N 104.183°W
Country	Mexico
State	Jalisco
Area
• Total	305.5 km2 (118.0 sq mi)
• Town	1.83 km2 (0.71 sq mi)
Population (2020 census)
• Total	3,791
• Density	12/km2 (32/sq mi)
• Town	3,478
• Town density	1,900/km2 (4,900/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central Standard Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)

San Marcos is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 305.5 km².

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 3,533.^[2]

History

The area now incorporating the settlement of San Marcos was originally called Chistic or Xistic and was originally inhabited by the Toltec tribe under the rule of the Tonallan kings. Francisco Cortés de San Buenaventura arrived followed in 1530 by Nuño de Guzman, and Juan de Escárcena. In 1542 San Marcos was visited by the Viceroy D. Antonio de Mendoza on his way to put down a large indigenous rebellion.

The town itself was founded on June 28, 1740, by Fray Antonio de Jesus who was instrumental in construction of the church. As late as 1825 the town had no city hall and was subordinate to Etzatlán Township. The city was officially founded by decree on April 17, 1907, which became effective the following April.

In the early 1900s, during the rule of Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz, the Mexican government forcibly marched thousands of Yaquis some 200 miles over the mountains from San Blas to San Marcos and its train station.^[3] There, the Yaqui survivors were sold at sixty pesos a head to the owners of sugar cane plantations in Oaxaca and the tobacco planters of the Valle Nacional, while thousands more were sold to the henequen plantation owners of the Yucatán.^[3] By 1908, at least five thousand Yaqui had been sold into forced slavery.^[3]^[4] Most died within the first year of their captivity.^[3]

Government

Municipal presidents

Municipal presidents	Term	Political party	Notes
Roberto Aguilar^[5]	1915
Eusebio Villarreal	1916
Benito Flores Gallardo	1917
Ricardo Vázquez Paredes	1918
Roberto Aguilar	1919
Daniel Amézquita	1920
Miguel Ballesteros	1921–1922
Alberto Rodríguez	1925–1926
Moisés Paredes	1927–1928
Miguel Paredes	1929	PNR
Manuel Paredes	1930	PNR
Pablo Leal	1931–1932	PNR
José Ramón Topete	1933	PNR
Melesio F. Aguilera	1934	PNR
Juan Rivera Castillo	1935	PNR
Daniel Amézquita	1936	PNR
Lucio Venegas Velázquez	1937	PNR
Lucio Venegas Navarro	1938	PRM
Ramón Venegas Velázquez	1939	PRM
Francisco Venegas Velázquez	1940–1942	PRM
Fernando Ocegueda	1943	PRM
Esteban Flores Baro	1944	PRM
José Amaral Solano	1945–1946	PRM
Carlos Cortés	1947–1948	PRI
Ramón Fonseca Reyes	1949–1950	PRI
Heriberto Paredes Villarreal	1951–1952	PRI
José R. Zambrano Ceceña	01-01-1953–31-12-1955	PRI
Hilario Paredes de León	1956	PRI
Arnulfo Romero Loza	01-01-1959–31-12-1961	PRI
Salvador Hernández Mata	01-01-1962–31-12-1964	PRI
Lorenzo Villarreal Monroy	01-01-1965–31-12-1967	PRI
J. Jesús Parra Flores	01-01-1968–31-12-1970	PRI
Manuel Gallardo López	01-01-1971–31-12-1973	PRI
José González Camarena	01-01-1974–1975	PRI
Eva Amézquita Martínez del Campo	1975–31-12-1976	PRI
Lorenzo Villarreal Monroy	01-01-1977–31-12-1979	PRI
Alejandro Díaz Hernández	01-01-1980–31-12-1982	PRI
Carlos Uribe Cisco^[6]	01-01-1983–31-12-1985	PRI
Alfredo Amézquita Díaz	01-01-1986–31-12-1988	PRI
Baltazar Curiel García^[7]	1989–1992	PRI
Roberto Mariscal Márquez^[8]	1992–1995	PRI
Baltazar Curiel García^[9]	1995–1997	PRI
Daniel Martín González Bernal^[10]	01-01-1998–31-12-2000	PRD
Plácido Villarreal Villanueva^[11]	01-01-2001–31-12-2003	PRD
Baltazar Curiel García^[12]	01-01-2004–31-12-2006	PRI
Eduardo Alejandro Díaz Paredes^[13]	01-01-2007–31-12-2009	PRI
Ramiro Amézquita Díaz^[14]	01-01-2010–30-09-2012	PAN
Eduardo Alejandro Díaz Paredes^[15]	01-10-2012–30-09-2015	PRI PVEM	Coalition "Compromise for Jalisco"
Baltazar Curiel García^[16]	01-10-2015–30-09-2018	PRI
David Sánchez Domínguez^[17]	01-10-2018–30-09-2021	PAN PRD MC
Martha Patricia Reyes Ruiz	01-10-2021–	MC