San Sebastián del Oeste Facts for Kids

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Municipality and town
San Sebastián del Oeste is nestled in a narrow mountain valley
Nickname(s): El Real
Location of the municipality in Jalisco
San Sebastián del Oeste Location in Mexico
Country	Mexico
State	Jalisco
Area
• Total	1,117 km² (431 sq mi)
• Town	0.8 km² (0.3 sq mi)
Elevation	1,480 m (4,856 ft)
Population (2020 census)
• Total	5,086
• Density	4.5533/km² (11.793/sq mi)
• Town	632
• Town density	790/km² (2,050/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central Standard Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)

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San Sebastián del Oeste (Spanish: [san seβasˈtjan del oˈeste]) is a town and municipality, located on the western part of Jalisco state, Mexico, between 20°39’45’’ - 21°02’30’’ N and 104°35’00’’ - 104°51’00’’ W, at a height of 1,480 metres (4,856 ft).

Geography
History
Population
Features
Government
- Municipal presidents
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Geography

The municipality of San Sebastián del Oeste borders the state of Nayarit to the north; to the south, the municipality of Mascota; to the east, the municipalities of Guachinango and Mascota; and to the west, Puerto Vallarta.

The city and municipality are served by an airfield.

History

San Sebastián was founded as a mining town in 1605, during the early Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain period. Gold, silver and lead were mined in the area. More than 25 mines and a number of foundries were established by 1785.

The town was formally established as a city in 1812.

Population

At the start of the 21st century, San Sebastián town had a population of less than 1,000 people.

It reached a peak population of around 20,000 people by 1900. The prosperity of the town declined after the revolution of 1910.

Features

San Sebastián del Oeste is a designated Pueblo Mágico, one of the towns maintaining their historical character and promoted by the federal government as tourism destinations. It also receives tourists visiting nearby Puerto Vallarta on the coast to the west. Recent road improvements reduced transit time from Puerto Vallarta to under 2 hours.

The Church of Saint Sebastian, whose original construction was in 1608, was designed in the Colonial Spanish Baroque style. It has notable architectural details, including Corinthian columns and ceiling vault frescos.
Many structures in the city and municipality were built of cut stone and/or adobe in the 19th and earlier centuries, and remain unchanged. Some old haciendas in the municipality have been purchased and restored in recent decades.
The city is on the Tentative List

Fiestas

The town is known for its fiestas for religious holidays:

January 20 — a fiesta in honor of Saint Sebastian.
August 15 — a fiesta dedicated to the Virgin of the Asunción.
October 7 — a fiesta for the Virgin of the Rosary.
December 12 — the Virgin of Guadalupe is venerated at the small town of Los Reyes, near San Sebastian del Oeste city in the municipality. The Fiesta of Guadalupe occurs throughout Mexico on this date.

Government

Its form of government is democratic and depends on the state and federal government; elections are held every three years, when the municipal president and her/his council are elected. The municipal president is Aurora Ponce Peña, from the Citizens' Movement party, who was elected in the elections on 6 June 2021.

Municipal presidents

Municipal president	Term	Political party	Notes
Ignacio Aguirre	1867
Francisco Landeros	1868–1869
Pablo Encarnación	1872
Herculano Robles	1873
Manuel Gil	1873
Pablo Encarnación	1874
Alberto Peña	1876–1877
Pablo Encarnación	1879–1880
Concepción Encarnación	1882
Manuel Gil	1883
Alberto Peña	1884
Calixto Sánchez	1885
Francisco Sánchez	1886
Concepción Encarnación	1887
Calixto Sánchez	1888
B. Bernal	1889
Francisco Sánchez	1890
Ricardo Ramos	1891–1892
Calixto Sánchez	1892
Francisco Sánchez	1893
Calixto Sánchez	1894
Aureliano Sánchez	1895
J. Francisco López	1896
Calixto Sánchez	1897
Alberto García	1898
Francisco López	1899
Manuel Gil	1900
Calixto Sánchez	1901
Isidro Robles	1902
Calixto Sánchez	1903–1904
Aureliano Sánchez	1905
Abraham González	1906
Aureliano Sánchez	1909
Calixto Sánchez	1908
Aureliano Sánchez	1909
José Robles	1910
Samuel Sánchez	1911
Efrén Aguirre	1912–1913
Agustín Encarnación	1914
Alfonso Ducreux	1915–1916
Antonio Siordia	1917
Isidro Robles	1918
Federico Bermúdez	1919
Ramón Villanueva	1920
Samuel Sánchez	1920
Antonio Peña	1920
Ramón VIllanueva	1920
Agustín Encarnación	1921
Amado Sánchez	1921
Samuel Sánchez N.	1922
Pedro Trujillo	1922
José Robles	1923
Ramón Villanueva	1923
Agustín Encarnación	1923
Ignacio Zaragoza	1923–1924
Pedro Trujillo	1924
Ignacio Zaragoza	1925
J. Guadalupe Arredondo	1926
Agustín Encarnación	1926
Antonio Esparza	1926
Antonio Siordia	1926
Samuel Sánchez N.	1927
Adrián Sánchez N.	1927
Feliciano Guerrero	1928
Alfonso Ducreux	1929	PNR
Pastor Siordia Morales	1930	PNR
Adolfo Ducreux	1930	PNR
Miguel Bernal Siordia	1931	PNR
Ruperto Guerrero	1932	PNR
Adrián Sánchez Noriega	1933	PNR
Heliodoro Aguirre García	1934	PNR
José Luis Bermúdez E.	1935	PNR
Manuel Gil E.	1936	PNR
Juan Manuel Bernal	1936	PNR
Juan Quintero	1937	PNR
José María Trujillo	1938–1939	PRM
Julián Dueñas Lepe	1940	PRM
José Medina Vázquez	1941	PRM
José María Trujillo B.	1942	PRM
Julián Dueñas Lepe	1943–1944	PRM
Heliodoro Aguirre García	1945–1946	PRM
Feliciano Guerrero López	1947–1948	PRI
Heliodoro Aguirre García	1949–1952	PRI
Leopoldo López Orendáin	1953	PRI
Gonzalo Montes Villalvazo	1954	PRI
Feliciano Guerrero López	1954	PRI
Guillermo Gómez García	1954–1955	PRI
Francisco Vázquez V.	1955	PRI
Guillermo Gómez García	1955	PRI
Juventino Bernal L.	1956	PRI
Luis González Siordia	1957	PRI
Francisco Sánchez Islas	1958	PRI
Alfredo Sánchez Sandoval	1959–1961	PRI
José María Trujillo Bernal	1962–1964	PRI
Arnulfo Ponce Peña	1965–1967	PRI
Ma. del Consuelo Trujillo González	01-01-1968–31-12-1970	PRI
Gabriel Arredondo López	01-01-1971–31-12-1973	PRI
Francisco Aguirre Gómez	01-01-1974–31-12-1976	PRI
José Manuel López Bernal	01-01-1977–31-12–1979	PRI
J. Jesús Hernández Pulido	01-01-1980–31-12-1982	PRI
Bertha Aguirre Sánchez	01-01-1983–31-12-1985	PRI
Heliodoro Gil Gil	01-01-1986–31-12-1988	PRI
Jesús Martínez Ibarra	1989–1992	PRI
Fernando Cervantes Gómez	1992–1995	PRI
Ignacio Gudiño Salazar	1995–1997	PRI
Juan Yáñez Morales	01-01-1998–31-12-2000	PRI
Vicente Aguirre Rosas	01-01-2001–31-12-2003	PRI
Miguel Cibrián Bernal	01-01-2004–31-12-2006	PRI
Efrén Álvarez López	01-01-2007–31-12-2009	PRD PT Convergence	"Coalition for the Good of All"
Juan Yáñez Morales	01-01-2010–30-09-2012	PRI Panal	Coalition "Alliance for Jalisco"
Yesenia Pulido Ávalos	01-10-2012–30-09-2015	PRI PVEM	Coalition "Compromise for Jalisco"
Jesús Damián Vázquez Barajas	01-10-2015–30-09-2018	MC
Luis Alberto Arredondo López	01-10-2018–30-09-2021	PVEM
María Aurora Ponce Peña	01-10-2021–	MC