Ahualulco de Mercado
Ahualulco de Mercado is a City and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 134.22 km. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 21,465. Name origin. Ahualulco comes from the Nahuatl word "Ayahualolco" which means "place of water crowned" or "place around the water." Geographical description. Location. Ahualulco de Mercado is located in central Jalisco, at coordinates 20° 37'20" to 20° 46'10" north latitude and 103° 52'00" to 104º 04'30" west longitude. The municipality is bordered on the north by the municipalities of Etzatlán, San  Juanito de Escobedo and Tequila, on the east by the town of Teuchitlán, on the south by the municipalities Teuchitlán and Ameca, and on the west by the municipalities of Ameca and Etzatlán. It lies on the road from El Refugio to San Marcos and is the most populous town and tourism in this area. Weather. The weather is semi-arid with dry winter and spring, and semi-warm, no well-defined thermal change for winter. The average annual temperature is 21.3 °C, with a high of 29.7 °C and minimum 13 °C. The rainfall occurs between  the months of June and July, having a mean of 871.4 mm precipitation, and reaching up to 1,100 during the rainy season. The average annual frost days is 8. The prevailing winds are north towards the northwest.