Scientists at the University of Guadalajara Institute of Astronomy and Meteorology (IAM) have forecast a delayed but eventually plentiful 2024 rainy season that could bring welcome relief for Lake Chapala.

Alejandro Aguirre Curiel has been declared the winner of Chapala’s 2024 mayoral race based on the official results of the vote count reported by the Municipal Electoral Council (CME) on Wednesday, June 5.

The new Cruz Roja Chapala (CRC) healthcare facility is near completion, but still needs around six million pesos to finish construction and equip the building. Fundraising efforts are now going into high gear to get the job done.

Early this week the Chapala government posted a notice on Facebook that a dry law (ley seca) would be applied in the municipality from midnight to 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 2, Mexico’s election day.

Members of the Wixárica indigenous tribe gathered Friday, May 17 at the sacred site of Xapawiyemeta on Lake Chapala’s Isla de los Alacranes for the ritual renovation of the thatched roofed Xiriki temple situated there.

The rumble of thunder and flashes of lightning in the evening sky on Tuesday, May 28 were hints that the first storm of the season was breaking out along Lake Chapala’s north shore.