Facts about Degollado, Jalisco

• Most played sport: Futbol
• Mass exportation of cantera
  Freestone
  A freestone is a stone used in masonry for molding, tracery and other replication work required to be worked with the chisel. The freestone must be fine-grained, uniform and soft enough to be cut easily without shattering or splitting. Some sources say that the stone has no grain, but this is...
  
  : One of the best selling products are: Beautiful images of the virgin of Guadalupe in quarry. And sculptures, such as fountains, animals, and columns.
• The holy patroness of Degollado is Our Lady of Guadalupe
  Our Lady of Guadalupe
  Our Lady of Guadalupe , also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe is a celebrated Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary.According to tradition, on December 9, 1531 Juan Diego, a simple indigenous peasant, had a vision of a young woman while he was on a hill in the Tepeyac desert, near Mexico City. The lady...
  
   and is celebrated on December 12.
• On December 24, 1917, the town was under siege by the bandit leader J. Inés García Chávez and his men.
• This was one of the places in highlands of Jalisco
  Jalisco
  Jalisco officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in Western Mexico and divided in 125 municipalities and its capital city is Guadalajara.It is one of the more important states...
  
   where the Cristero War
  Cristero War
  The Cristero War of 1926 to 1929 was an uprising and counter-revolution against the Mexican government in power at that time. The rebellion was set off by the strict enforcement of the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917 and the expansion of further anti-clerical laws...
  
   took place during the 1920s.
• In Spanish, the word "degollado" means "to slit one's throat", "behead", or "decapitate". It is also a last name. In this case, the town was named after a Mexican general, Santos Degollado
  Santos Degollado
  José Santos Degollado Sánchez was a Mexican politician and military leader. During his service in the Mexican Army, Degollado fought against López de Santa Anna and later alongside Benito Juárez. He was deputy, and later governor of the state of Michoacán...
  
  . A statue of him is in el Jardin de Niños which was made from coins from the townspeople during the early 1960s.
• It is characterized by having excellent nutritionists (In the Rinconada, Degollado) specialize in acupuncture,massage and herbal medicine, They advise patients from towns and villages in Jalisco, and USA
• Degollado is the municipal seat for the Municipality
  Municipalities of Jalisco
  The Mexican state of Jalisco is divided into125 municipalities...
  
   of Degollado. The municipality encompasses other towns, hamlets
  Hamlet (place)
  A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
  
   and rancheria
  Ranchería
  The Spanish word ranchería, or rancherío, refers to a small, rural settlement. In the Americas the term was applied to native villages and to the workers' quarters of a ranch. English adopted the term with both these meanings, usually to designate the residential area of a rancho in the American...
  
  s. Among them are Huascato, Los Ranchitos, La Vibora, Buenos Aires, Las Limas, Altamira, La Chancla, El Corral de Piedra, and various others.