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.
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.Turner, John Kenneth, Barbarous Mexico, Chicago: C.F. Kerr & Co. (1910), pp. 43-47 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. By 1908, at least five thousand Yaqui had been sold into forced slavery.Spicer, pp. 80-82 Most died within the first year of their captivity.
Government Municipal presidents Municipal presidentsTermPolitical partyNotesRoberto Aguilar 1915Eusebio Villarreal1916Benito Flores Gallardo1917Ricardo Vázquez Paredes1918Roberto Aguilar1919Daniel Amézquita1920Miguel Ballesteros1921–1922Alberto Rodríguez1925–1926Moisés Paredes1927–1928Miguel Paredes1929PNR Manuel Paredes1930PNR Pablo Leal1931–1932PNR José Ramón Topete1933PNR Melesio F. Aguilera1934PNR Juan Rivera Castillo1935PNR Daniel Amézquita1936PNR Lucio Venegas Velázquez1937PNR Lucio Venegas Navarro1938PRM Ramón Venegas Velázquez1939PRM Francisco Venegas Velázquez1940–1942PRM Fernando Ocegueda1943PRM Esteban Flores Baro1944PRM José Amaral Solano1945–1946PRM Carlos Cortés1947–1948PRI Ramón Fonseca Reyes1949–1950PRI Heriberto Paredes Villarreal1951–1952PRI José R. Zambrano Ceceña01-01-1953–31-12-1955PRI Hilario Paredes de León1956PRI Arnulfo Romero Loza01-01-1959–31-12-1961PRI Salvador Hernández Mata01-01-1962–31-12-1964PRI Lorenzo Villarreal Monroy01-01-1965–31-12-1967PRI J. Jesús Parra Flores01-01-1968–31-12-1970PRI Manuel Gallardo López01-01-1971–31-12-1973PRI José González Camarena01-01-1974–1975PRI Eva Amézquita Martínez del Campo1975–31-12-1976PRI Lorenzo Villarreal Monroy01-01-1977–31-12-1979PRI Alejandro Díaz Hernández01-01-1980–31-12-1982PRI Carlos Uribe Cisco01-01-1983–31-12-1985PRI Alfredo Amézquita Díaz01-01-1986–31-12-1988PRI Baltazar Curiel García1989–1992PRI Roberto Mariscal Márquez1992–1995PRI Baltazar Curiel García1995–1997PRI Daniel Martín González Bernal01-01-1998–31-12-2000PRD Plácido Villarreal Villanueva01-01-2001–31-12-2003PRD Baltazar Curiel García01-01-2004–31-12-2006PRI Eduardo Alejandro Díaz Paredes 01-01-2007–31-12-2009PRI Ramiro Amézquita Díaz01-01-2010–30-09-2012PAN Eduardo Alejandro Díaz Paredes 01-10-2012–30-09-2015PRI PVEM Coalition "Compromise for Jalisco" Baltazar Curiel García01-10-2015–30-09-2018PRI David Sánchez Domínguez01-10-2018–30-09-2021PAN PRD MC Martha Patricia Reyes Ruiz01-10-2021–MC
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