From nahuatl "Tequilla" derive the words that give name to this municipality: "tequílli" (cut) and "tlan" (between). It translates as "place cut" or "place where it is cut." It is a town that develops and continues to grow among legends who share the taste of generations that matured and disappeared between fields and the jima of Los Altos de Jalisco.
It is Tequila! Prosperous city that emerges in history always accompanied by the blue agave (tequilana weber), plant that was already exploited by the pre-Hispanic Indigenous in the use of  fermented concoction and garment manufacturing. In 1600 the first factory was installed by Don Pedro Sanchez de Tagle, Marquis of Altamira, who introduced the cultivation and distillation of mezcal. That is when the community saw how this industry born that later became the main economic source of the municipality: the production of Tequila, as well as the production of  barrels, casks, amphoras made with oak wood and pork skin to store the liquid. There are still very old factories as "The Riojeña" founded in 1795, "El Tigre" (today, La Constancia) founded in 1823, Destiladora  de Occidente (now, "Tequila D'Reyes") founded in 1840, La Perseverancia (now, Tequila Sauza ) founded in 1873,  El Llano (today,Azteca Tequila) founded in 1876 and La Mexicana (now, Tequila Orendain) founded in 1879.
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