El Grullo, Jalisco | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality and city |
Mapsize: | 200px |
Pushpin Map: | Mexico |
Pushpin Label Position: | above |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Mexico |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Mexico |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Jalisco |
Area Total Km2: | 157.2 |
Population As Of: | 2005 |
Population Total: | 21,825 |
Coordinates: | 19.8056°N -104.2167°W |
El Grullo is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 157.2 km2. It is named for a color, used for horses and grass, called grullo, used as the name of an Hacienda established there: "La Hacienda del Zacate Grullo".
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 21,825.[1]
In recent years, the town of El Grullo has begun expanding and now has begun to construct suburban-style housing developments on the outer limits of the town. There have also been new points of interest adding in the town center such as an obelisk, a larger city hall, and accessible WiFi throughout the town center., there are about 30,000 residents living in the developing city limits.