Atotonilco_El_Alto
Atotonilco El Alto
Municipality and town in Jalisco, Mexico
Atotonilco El Alto is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in Los Altos (Jalisco) region in central-western Mexico.[2] The municipality covers an area of 510.9 km2.
Atotonilco (pronounced ah-toh-toh-NEAL-co) means "place of hot waters", in Náhuatl. "El Alto"("The High One") was later added in honor of those who died in the Cristero War in the early 1920s.
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 51,798.[3]