The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Chiggers, popularly called güinas in Jalisco, are nearly invisible larvae of Trombiculid mites, whose bites result in exceedingly itchy red welts. I last wrote about them in 2011 and it’s time for an update.
Ahualulco is a small town located 55 kilometers west of Guadalajara. Never heard of it, you say?
Not long ago I was contacted by a reader of the Guadalajara Reporter who lives in the United States.
By John Pint
Tres Mujeres is a small tequila distillery conveniently situated alongside Highway 15, just 30 kilometers west of Guadalajara.
Three short but blustery storms, each followed by 12- to 16-hour apagones (blackouts): No need to check the calendar, without a doubt it’s summertime in rural Jalisco!
In 2011, bat researcher Leonel Ayala told me about a cave at the eastern end of Lake Chapala near Jamay.
Jalisco has the fourth-largest obsidian deposits in the world but until now no excavations have ever been carried out to study in detail the process by which a chunk of this volcanic glass was transformed into useful artifacts by pre-Hispanic people.
