Climate
It is temperate, thanks to Lake Chapala, which provides freshness, and does not reach the levels of heat or cold that is in the towns to their surroundings.
Understand
Chapala is located in the central zone of the state. Chapala is also the name of the biggest lake of the country. Chapala means "place of Vases"Nahuatl; "really wet place" Coca; or "place of grasshoppers over the water" Nahuatl.
History
Originally Chapala or Chapallan was a pre-Hispanic settlement whose earliest antiquity is found in the twelfth century AD,when migration of Nahuatl tribes from the northwest, reach this latitudes, finding the north shore of the lake highly populated as referred by Fray Antonio Tello, franciscan friar and chronicler.