The Salitre War ( es, Guerra del Salitre; also Saltpeter War) was a 1480-1510 military conflict between the

Tarascan state Tarascan or Tarasca is an exonym and the popular name for the Purépecha culture. It may refer to: * the Tarascan State, a Mesoamerican empire until the Spanish conquest in the 1500s, located in (present-day) west-central Mexico * the Purépecha ...

of Purépecha people and peoples settled in

Colima Colima (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Colima ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Colima), is one of the 31 states that make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It shares its name with its capital and main city, Colima. Colima i ...

, Sayula, Zapotlán,

Tapalpa Tapalpa () is a town and municipality in Jalisco, a state of central-western Mexico. History The word "Tapalpa" comes from the Nahuatl word "tlapalpan" meaning "land of colors." The region was inhabited by the Otomi prior to the arrival of the ...

, and

Autlán Autlán de Navarro is a city and its surrounding municipalities of Mexico, municipality of the same name in the Costa Sur region of the southwestern part of the state of Jalisco in Mexico. At the Mexican census of 2005, the city had a population ...

. It started with the invasion by Tarascan ''

cazonci Irecha was the title held by the ruler of the Purépecha Empire, which existed from the 14th to the 16th centuries in the area of the modern mexican states of Michoacán, Guerrero Guerrero is one of the 32 states that comprise the 32 Federal ...

'' (monarch) Tangaxuan II with the purpose to seize the mining of

saltpeter Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula . This alkali metal nitrate salt is also known as Indian saltpetre (large deposits of which were historically mined in India). It is an ionic salt of potassium ions K+ and nitrat ...

(hence the name) and ended with the expulsion of Purépecha from the areas of Colima and Jalisco.Enciclopedia de Mexico, 2005,
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