Tonaya Municipality

Tonaya is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 293.6 km2. As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 5,961.

==History== Tonaya, Jalisco is a city of Catholicism. In the 1800s the church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in Tonaya was built. During that time it was known as, church of the Virgin of Tonaya, the residue and bell tower of this church can still be seen standing tall and majestic, even when it's no longer in use becoming a historic part of the municipality Tonaya. 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 town 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.