Tonaya

Tonaya
Municipality and city
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Location of the municipality in Jalisco Location of the municipality in Jalisco
Tonaya Location in Mexico
Coordinates:
Country	Mexico
State	Jalisco
Area
• Total	463.67 km2 (179.02 sq mi)
Population (2005)
• Total	5,557
Time zone	Central Standard Time (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	Central Daylight Time (UTC-5)

Tonaya is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 463.67 km².

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 5557.

History

Tonaya, Jalisco is a city of Catholicism. In the 1800s the church of Tonaya was built, for the last 200 years it has stayed the tallest building in Tonaya signaling high authority in the religious area of the city. But the biggest religious story of Tonaya is the story of the Marian apparition that protects the city by the name of La Virgen de Tonaya. Her physical form has been said to have only been seen by very few people in the nearby mountains. It is also said that her spirit resides in a doll that was made to replicate her located in the church. Every year she is taken out of her church viewing spot and carried through the streets of Tonaya to be seen by the whole population of the city.