Zapotitlán de Vadillo is a town and

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

, in

Jalisco Jalisco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in western Mexico and is bordered by s ...

in central-western

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

. The municipality covers an area of 305.8 km². As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 6,345. The indigenous inhabitants of this area originally spoke the extinct, unclassified Zapoteco and

Otomi The Otomi (; ) are an Indigenous people of Mexico inhabiting the central Mexican Plateau (Altiplano) region. The Otomi are an Indigenous people of the Americas who inhabit a discontinuous territory in central Mexico. They are linguistically rel ...

languages. During the colonial era it was part of the province of Amula.

Government

The form of government is democratic. The municipal president and the rest of the councilors with a relative majority, as well as those with proportional representation, are elected every three years by free and universal suffrage of citizens over 18 years of age in full exercise of their political rights.

Municipal presidents

References

Municipalities of Jalisco Long stubs with short prose {{Jalisco-geo-stub