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* [[Victoriano Huerta]]
* [[María Cid Caldera]]
* [[Salvador Lutteroth González]] Father Founder of la Lucha Libre.
* [[Oscar Serrano]] (1989-), International Artist and musical Production.
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The [[Municipio (Mexico)|municipality]] of '''Colotlán''' is in the northern extremity of the [[Mexican state]] of [[Jalisco]].  The municipality covers an area of approximately 648 square kilometers.  Colotlán is located at {{coord|22|12|N|103|18|W|}}.
<!---a longtude of 22º 12" North and a latitude of 103º 18" West.--->
It stands at {{convert|1550|m|ft}} above sea level.
Colotlán is bordered on the northeast by the municipality of Santa María de los Ángeles, on the northwest and southeast by the state of [[Zacatecas]] and to the southwest by the municipality of [[Totatiche]].
==Population==
The population of the municipality of Colotlán in 2000 totaled 14,266.  Of these, 12,283 lived in the municipal seat of Colotlán and the remainder lived in surrounding rural areas. The main villages in the Municipality (known in the region as "Ranchos") are: El Refugio, El Saucillo De Los Pérez, El Carrizal, El Epazote, Los Veliz, Agua Gorda.
Colotlán had a total of 6,008 economically active individuals in 2000.  The manufacturing sector employs the largest percentage of this population (30.6 percent) followed by the wholesale and retail sectors (13.6 percent) and agriculture and ranching (12.0 percent).
The municipality is the origin and an important center of [[piteado]] manufacturing.
==History==
===Pre-Hispanic===
The name Colotlán means "the place of scorpions" in [[Nahuatl]]. Before the Spanish conquest, the area surrounding present-day Colotlán was inhabited by [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous ethnic groups]] including the [[Tepehuan|Tepecano]], Guachichil and Zacatec (largely nomadic groups collectively referred to by the [[Mexica]] and later the Spanish as [[Chichimecs]]).  These groups were continuously at war with the Caxcan who inhabited the surrounding areas.
===Colonial===
[[Image:Templo de San Nicolás.jpg|thumb|left|Temple of San Nicolás]]
The first Spaniards to set foot in the region were soldiers under the command of Captain [[Pedro Almíndez Chirino]] in 1530, who reported that the area was largely uninhabited. The atrocities committed by the expeditions sent by [[Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán]] led to an area chieftain by the name of Zacatecas to align various indigenous groups in the area to resist the Spanish incursion in the Mixtón War in 1540.
In 1546, the governor of [[Nueva Galicia]], [[Cristóbal de Oñate]] sent [[Juan de Tolosa]], who was successful in convincing the indigenous groups to accept Spanish military presence and evangelization by lavishing their leaders with gifts.
The first Spanish settlement was established by Lucas Tellez, who founded the Tochopa Hacienda.  Along with Diego Ramírez, they sought permission from the viceroy [[Luís de Velasco]] to found a village.  The village was initially populated by part of the 400 [[Tlaxcaltec]] families sent to this and other regions in the Chichimeca.  The Spanish had negotiated with Tlaxaltec leaders to send families to regions where they had been unsuccessful in subjugating the local indigenous groups.  The Tlaxcaltecs, who had allied themselves with the Spanish in the conquest of [[Tenochtitlan]] were to serve as models of civility and of sedentary agricultural life for the still indominitable Chichimecs of the region.
[[Image:Portales de Colotlán.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Portal (architecture)]] of colotlan]]
On August 21, 1591, Captain [[Miguel Caldera]], mayor of the village of [[Jerez de García Salinas|Jerez]] and the Valley of [[Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román|Tlaltenango]], gave the necessary land to establish a settlement.  The land was put under the custody of Fray Ignacio Cárdenas, who named the village Villa de Nueva Tlaxcala de Quiahuistlán, a name by which Colotlan was known until the end of the 18th century.
The village was divided into three sectors.  The first, Tlaxcala, corresponded to the Tlaxcaltecs as well as the few Spaniards who inhabited the village initially.  The second, Sayotlan, was home to the local indigenous inhabitants who had been pacified.  The third sector, Tochopa, named after the hacienda that had existed before the town was founded, was for immigrant indigenous groups.
While initially under the rule of the government of [[Nueva Galicia]], the cost and logistics of suppressing the indigenous uprisings in the surrounding areas in the 18th century led the colonial government to place the town and its surrounding areas under the rule of a military government in the mid 18th century.  Military governors during this period included Simon de Herrera Leiba and Pablo Enrique Yriarte Lanumbe.  These military governments were charged with all civil and criminal proceedings in the region under their rule, known as [[Las Fronteras de Colotlán]], which in addition to Colotlan, included the provinces of [[Nayarit]] and [[Bolaños Municipality|Bolaños]].  Upon the military government's dissolution in 1806, the area was divided into nine subdelegations and put under the rule of government of [[Nueva Galicia]].
===Modern===
[[File:Cunorte.jpg|500px|thumb|center|CUNorte, located in Colotlán]]
On November 12, 1810, a local indigenous leader from the Tlaxcala neighborhood, [[Marcos Escobedo]] along with a priest named [[Pablo José Calvillo]], declared Colotlán independent from Spain and put himself and the local indigenous garrisons under the command of [[Miguel Hidalgo]], leader of the independence movement.
In 1824, Colotlán was given the title of city and since that date served as seat of the 8th Canton of Jalisco.  A municipal government was established by decree on April 8, 1844.
[[Image:UnirsedeColotlan.JPG|thumb|left|Center UNIRSE.]]
A small village in the municipality, called Agua Gorda, is the birthplace of [[Victoriano Huerta|Victoriano Huerta Márquez]], President of Mexico from 1913 to 1914.  He was born on December 23, 1850, son of Jesús Huerta and Refugio Márquez, who was purportedly of [[Huichol people|Huichol]] descent. Victoriano Huerta is one of the few [[Presidents of Mexico]] who were originally from the state of [[Jalisco]] (with [[Valentín Gómez Farías]] who served as acting president twice)
The area surrounding Colotlan was one of the principal battlegrounds of the [[Cristero]] Rebellion which lasted from 1927 to 1929, where pro-Catholic forces rebelled against the liberal and secularizing decrees instituted by [[Plutarco Elías Calles]], which included suspension of worship, execution of non-compliant clergy, bans on clergy wearing clerical garb in public and on criticizing the government.
The parish priest of Totatiche, [[Cristóbal Magallanes Jara]], who was canonized by Pope [[John Paul II]] in 1992, was executed by the Mexican government by firing squad in Colotlán on May 25, 1927 as a consequence of the Cristero conflict.
Colotlán is named "Capital del Cinto Piteado",<ref>[http://www.colotlan.gob.mx/turismo/fenapi.html Feria Nacional del Piteado (Spanish)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205005253/http://www.colotlan.gob.mx/turismo/fenapi.html |date=2008-12-05 }}</ref> Capital of the [[Piteado]] belt, this hand tailored belt among other things is made in Colotlán, and at one time provided a large portion of the income of the local residents.  Demand has diminished for this product in recent years.
==Government==
===Municipal presidents===
{|class="wikitable"
! Municipal president
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! Political party
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|- style="background:#ffe1e1"
|Javier Ávila Mares<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jalisco.gob.mx/es/jalisco/municipios/colotlan |title=Jalisco. Colotlán. Cronología de los presidentes municipales |language=es |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iepcjalisco.org.mx/sites/default/files/mun82.pdf |title=Cómputo del Consejo Electoral del Estado de Jalisco en las elecciones de munícipes 1982. Colotlán. PRI: 3372 votos. Partido Socialista Unificado de México (PSUM): 138 votos |language=es |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
|01-01-1983–31-12-1985
|[[Institutional Revolutionary Party|PRI]] [[File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg|21px|link=Institutional Revolutionary Party]]
|
|- style="background:#ffe1e1"
|Renato Haro Ortega
|01-01-1986–31-12-1988
|PRI [[File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg|21px|link=Institutional Revolutionary Party]]
|
|- style="background:#ffe1e1"
|Felipe Valdez Pacheco<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iepcjalisco.org.mx/sites/default/files/mun88.pdf|title=Consejo Electoral del Estado de Jalisco. CEEJ. Resultados de la elección de munícipes, 1988. Colotlán. PRI: 1542 votos. PAN: 522 votos. Coalición Cardenista Jalisciense (CCJ): 10 votos |language=es |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
|1989–1992
|PRI [[File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg|21px|link=Institutional Revolutionary Party]]
|
|- style="background:#ddeef6"
|José de Jesús Alejo Mayorga<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iepcjalisco.org.mx/sites/default/files/mun92.pdf|title=Consejo Electoral del Estado de Jalisco. CEEJ. Elección de munícipes, 1992. Colotlán. PAN: 2316 votos. PRI: 2085 votos. Partido Popular Socialista (PPS): 19 votos. Partido del Frente Cardenista de Reconstrucción Nacional (PFCRN): 2 votos  |language=es |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
|1992–1995
|[[National Action Party (Mexico)|PAN]] [[File:PAN Party (Mexico).svg|20px]]
|
|- style="background:#ddeef6"
|Adolfo Pinedo Martínez<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iepcjalisco.org.mx/sites/default/files/mun95.pdf |title=Consejo Electoral del Estado de Jalisco. CEEJ. Elección de munícipes, 1995. Colotlán. PAN: 3547 votos. PRI: 2651 votos. PT: 74 votos. PRD: 11 votos |language=es |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
|1995–1997
|PAN [[File:PAN Party (Mexico).svg|20px]]
|
|- style="background:#ddeef6"
|José de Jesús Alejo Mayorga<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iepcjalisco.org.mx/sites/default/files/mun97.pdf|title=Consejo Electoral del Estado de Jalisco. CEEJ. Resultados de la elección de munícipes, 1997. Colotlán. PAN: 3251 votos. PRI: 2525 votos. PRD: 602 votos. PT: 175 votos. PVEM: 42 votos |language=es |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
|01-01-1998–31-12-2000
|PAN [[File:PAN Party (Mexico).svg|20px]]
|
|- style="background:#ffe1e1"
|Osbaldo Leaños Medina<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iepcjalisco.org.mx/sites/default/files/concmun%202000.pdf|title=Consejo Electoral del Estado de Jalisco. CEEJ. Resultados de la elección de munícipes del 12 de noviembre de 2000. Colotlán. PRI: 3506 votos. PAN: 3076 votos. PRD: 334 votos |language=es |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
|01-01-2001–31-12-2003
|PRI [[File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg|21px|link=Institutional Revolutionary Party]]
|
|- style="background:#ddeef6"
|José Luis Carrillo Sandoval<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iepcjalisco.org.mx/sites/default/files/mun03.pdf |title=Consejo Electoral del Estado de Jalisco. CEEJ. Integración de votos correspondientes a cada partido por municipio, elecciones del año 2003. Colotlán. PAN: 4001 votos. PRI: 2162 votos. PRD: 741 votos¨. Partido Alianza Social (PAS): 53 votos |language=es |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
|01-01-2004–31-12-2006
|PAN [[File:PAN Party (Mexico).svg|20px]]
|
|- style="background:#ddeef6"
|Enrique Álvarez de la Torre<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iepcjalisco.org.mx/sites/default/files/EleccionMunicipes.pdf |title=Consejo Electoral del Estado de Jalisco. CEEJ. Resultado de los cómputos municipales, 5 de julio de 2006. Colotlán. PAN: 3755 votos. PRI: 2831 votos. PRD-PT: 507 votos. PC: 332 votos |language=es |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
|01-01-2007–2009
|PAN [[File:PAN Party (Mexico).svg|20px]]
|
|- style="background:#ddeef6"
|José Julián Quezada Santoyo
|2009
|PAN [[File:PAN Party (Mexico).svg|20px]]
|Acting municipal president
|- style="background:#ddeef6"
|Enrique Álvarez de la Torre
|2009
|PAN [[File:PAN Party (Mexico).svg|20px]]
|Resumed
|- style="background:#ddeef6"
|José Luis Carrillo Sandoval<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iepcjalisco.org.mx/sites/default/files/Ayuntamientos.pdf |title=Instituto Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana del Estado de Jalisco. IEPC Jalisco. Proceso electoral 2009. Regidores de mayoría relativa, y de representación proporcional. Colotlán. PAN: 3847 votos. PRI-Partido Nueva Alianza (Panal): 3450 votos. PRD: 244 votos. PT: 119 votos |language=es |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
|01-01-2010–30-09-2012
|PAN [[File:PAN Party (Mexico).svg|20px]]
|
|- style="background:#ffe1e1"
|José de Jesús Navarro Cárdenas<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.iepcjalisco.org.mx/sites/default/files/Integracion_ayuntamientos_2012.pdf|title=Instituto Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana del Estado de Jalisco. IEPC Jalisco. Integración ayuntamientos 2012. Anexo V. Colotlán. PRI-PVEM: 4936 votos. PAN: 2620 votos. MC: 1034 votos. PRD: 452 votos |language=es |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
|01-10-2012–30-09-2015
|PRI [[File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg|21px|link=Institutional Revolutionary Party]]<br> [[Ecologist Green Party of Mexico|PVEM]] [[File:PVE logo (Mexico).svg|19px]]
|Coalition "Compromise for Jalisco"
|- style="background:#ddeef6"
|Armando Pinedo Martínez<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iepcjalisco.org.mx/sites/default/files/proceso_2015/resultados/integracion_ayuntamientos_2015.pdf |title=Instituto Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana del Estado de Jalisco. IEPC Jalisco. Resultados de la elección de munícipes. Proceso electoral local ordinario 2015. Integración de ayuntamientos 2015. Colotlán. PAN: 3931 votos. MC: 2514 votos. PRI: 2299 votos |language=es |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
|01-10-2015–30-09-2018
|PAN [[File:PAN Party (Mexico).svg|20px]]
|
|- style="background:#ddeef6"
|Jorge Alonso Arellano Gándara<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iepcjalisco.org.mx/sites/default/files/proceso_2018/docs/resultados/Integracion_ayuntamientos_2018.pdf|title=Instituto Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana del Estado de Jalisco. IEPC Jalisco. Integración de ayuntamientos, 2018. Anexo 4. Colotlán. PAN-PRD-MC 3258 votos. PRI: 2016 votos. PT-Morena-PES: 859 votos. PVEM: 61 votos |language=es |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
|01-10-2018–30-09-2021
|PAN [[File:PAN Party (Mexico).svg|22px]]<br> [[Party of the Democratic Revolution|PRD]] [[File:PRD logo without border (Mexico).svg|20px]]<br> [[Citizens' Movement (Mexico)|MC]] [[File:MC Party (Mexico).svg|22px]]
|
|- style="background:#ffd2b3"
|José Julián Quezada Santoyo<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iepcjalisco.org.mx/resultados-electorales |title=Instituto Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana del Estado de Jalisco. IEPC Jalisco. Integración de ayuntamientos, 2021. MC: 3167 votos. Hagamos: 3008 votos. PAN: 1327 votos. Morena: 667 votos. Francisco Gándara Cárdenas (Independent candidate): 411 votos. PRI: 315 votos. PT: 85 votos. PRD: 41 votos |language=es |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
|01-10-2021-
|MC [[File:MC Party (Mexico).svg|22px]]
|
|}
==Geography==
===Climate===
{{Weather box
|location = Colotlán (1951–2010)
|metric first = yes
|single line = yes
|temperature colour =
|Jan record high C = 34.0
|Feb record high C = 42.0
|Mar record high C = 40.0
|Apr record high C = 42.0
|May record high C = 47.0
|Jun record high C = 48.0
|Jul record high C = 42.0
|Aug record high C = 43.0
|Sep record high C = 42.0
|Oct record high C = 41.0
|Nov record high C = 36.0
|Dec record high C = 35.0
|year record high C = 48.0
|Jan high C = 24.0
|Feb high C = 25.9
|Mar high C = 28.0
|Apr high C = 30.8
|May high C = 33.0
|Jun high C = 32.3
|Jul high C = 29.3
|Aug high C = 29.0
|Sep high C = 28.7
|Oct high C = 27.7
|Nov high C = 26.5
|Dec high C = 24.1
|year high C = 28.3
|Jan mean C = 14.5
|Feb mean C = 15.7
|Mar mean C = 17.7
|Apr mean C = 20.1
|May mean C = 22.6
|Jun mean C = 23.5
|Jul mean C = 21.8
|Aug mean C = 21.5
|Sep mean C = 21.1
|Oct mean C = 19.3
|Nov mean C = 17.0
|Dec mean C = 15.0
|year mean C = 19.2
|Jan low C = 5.1
|Feb low C = 5.6
|Mar low C = 7.5
|Apr low C = 9.5
|May low C = 12.3
|Jun low C = 14.6
|Jul low C = 14.3
|Aug low C = 14.0
|Sep low C = 13.6
|Oct low C = 10.9
|Nov low C = 7.4
|Dec low C = 5.9
|year low C = 10.1
|Jan record low C = -4.0
|Feb record low C = -4.5
|Mar record low C = -3.2
|Apr record low C = 0.0
|May record low C = 2.0
|Jun record low C = 1.0
|Jul record low C = 1.0
|Aug record low C = 2.0
|Sep record low C = 2.0
|Oct record low C = 2.0
|Nov record low C = -5.5
|Dec record low C = -2.5
|year record low C = -5.5
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 17.3
|Feb precipitation mm = 8.2
|Mar precipitation mm = 6.0
|Apr precipitation mm = 7.7
|May precipitation mm = 12.0
|Jun precipitation mm = 84.4
|Jul precipitation mm = 162.6
|Aug precipitation mm = 144.3
|Sep precipitation mm = 93.4
|Oct precipitation mm = 40.9
|Nov precipitation mm = 11.5
|Dec precipitation mm = 13.1
|year precipitation mm = 601.4
|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 1.8
|Feb precipitation days = 0.9
|Mar precipitation days = 0.7
|Apr precipitation days = 0.8
|May precipitation days = 2.2
|Jun precipitation days = 9.4
|Jul precipitation days = 15.7
|Aug precipitation days = 15.4
|Sep precipitation days = 11.2
|Oct precipitation days = 5.3
|Nov precipitation days = 1.6
|Dec precipitation days = 2.4
|year precipitation days = 67.4
|Jan humidity = 54
|Feb humidity = 50
|Mar humidity = 42
|Apr humidity = 41
|May humidity = 43
|Jun humidity = 58
|Jul humidity = 64
|Aug humidity = 66
|Sep humidity = 65
|Oct humidity = 61
|Nov humidity = 57
|Dec humidity = 57
|year humidity = 55
|Jan sun = 261
|Feb sun = 263
|Mar sun = 288
|Apr sun = 310
|May sun = 308
|Jun sun = 257
|Jul sun = 233
|Aug sun = 246
|Sep sun = 233
|Oct sun = 255
|Nov sun = 262
|Dec sun = 240
|year sun =
|source 1 = Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (humidity 1981–2000)<ref name = SMN>{{cite web
| url = http://smn.cna.gob.mx/climatologia/Normales5110/NORMAL14175.TXT
| title = Estado de Jalisco–Estacion: Colotlan (DGE)
| work = NORMALES CLIMATOLÓGICAS 1951–2010
| publisher = Servicio Meteorológico Nacional
| language = es
| access-date = 6 May 2015}}</ref><ref name = extremas>{{cite web
| url = http://smn.cna.gob.mx/climatologia/Max-Extr/00014/00014175.TXT
| title = Extreme Temperatures and Precipitation for Colotlan (DGE) 1950–1998
| publisher = Servicio Meteorológico Nacional
| language = es
| access-date = 6 May 2015}}</ref><ref name = obs>{{cite web
| url = http://smn.cna.gob.mx/observatorios/historica/colotlan.pdf
| title = NORMALES CLIMATOLÓGICAS 1981–2000
| publisher = Servicio Meteorológico Nacional
| language = es
| access-date = 6 May 2015}}</ref>
|source 2 = [[Deutscher Wetterdienst]] (sun, 1961–1990)<ref name = DWD>{{cite web
| url = ftp://ftp-cdc.dwd.de/pub/CDC/observations_global/CLIMAT/multi_annual/sunshine_duration/1961_1990.txt
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171017195327/ftp://ftp-cdc.dwd.de/pub/CDC/observations_global/CLIMAT/multi_annual/sunshine_duration/1961_1990.txt
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = 2017-10-17
| title = Station 76519, Colotlan
| work = Global station data 1961–1990—Sunshine Duration
| publisher = Deutscher Wetterdienst
| access-date = 3 May 2015
}}</ref>{{efn|[https://web.archive.org/web/20171017195318/ftp://ftp-cdc.dwd.de/pub/CDC/help/stations_list_CLIMAT_data.txt Station ID for Colotlan is 76519] Use this station ID to locate the sunshine duration}}
|date=May 2015
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==Natural attractions==
One of the natural attractions of Colotlán is a natural canyon known as "La Barranca" located about 1 kilometer east of El Refugio, in the south east part of the municipality. This canyon runs for approximately 5 kilometers and is the exit of the basin of approximately 100 square kilometers that was formed in the highlands in the neighbouring state of [[Zacatecas]] between the Sierra de Morones and the "Cerro Chichimeco" (Chichimeco mountain, approximately 2,600 meters above sea level). The canyon is also the origin of the "Chichoca" River, that runs east–west and that joins the Colotlán River before joining the [[Bolaños River]], one of the most important tributaries, running north–south, of the [[Lerma River|Lerma-Santiago River]].
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== Symbols ==
=== Coat of arms ===
[[File:ColotlanEscudo.png|thumb|180px|Seal of City of Colotlán.]]
Colotlán has a Spanish-style coat of arms with a Castilian crown at the top and a [[scorpion]] in the center of the heraldic field; it means “Alongside the scorpions” in the Nahuatl language.<ref>[https://www.estudiosjaliscienses.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/8-Colotl%C3%A1n-en-los-%C3%BAltimos-a%C3%B1os.pdf Estudios Jaliscienses] Jalisco government, September 1, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://www.medigraphic.com/pdfs/saljalisco/sj-2021/sj213g.pdf Council of Colotlán] Jalisco government, August 29, 2024.</ref>
===Flag===
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| Name         = Colotlán
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| Image        = Bandera de Colotlán.png
| Use          = 110000
| Symbol       = {{FIAV|normal}}
| Proportion   = 4:7
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The flag of Colotlán consists of a red rectangle with a ratio of four to seven; in the center it bears the Municipal Coat of arms in gold, placed in such a way that it occupies three-quarters of the width.<ref>[https://www.colotlan.gob.mx/escudo-de-armas/ Council of Colotlán] Jalisco government, August 11, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://www.colotlan.gob.mx/el-dr-pepe-quezada-presento-su-segundo-informe-de-gobierno/ Council of Colotlán] Jalisco government, September 1, 2024.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Colotlan, Jalisco (Mexico) (Flags of the World) |url=https://www.fotw.info/flags/mx-jc-cl.html |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=www.fotw.info}}</ref>
==Sources==
*Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica ([[National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Data Processing|INEGI]])
*Botello Aceves, Brígida del Carmen, en Memoria del Municipio en Jalisco.  Unidad Editorial, Gobierno de Jalisco, 1987
==References==
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{{Commonscat|Colotlán Municipality}}
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