Uncertainties about the precise location of Chapala’s boundary lines will finally be resolved through a comprehensive program being undertaken by the Jalisco legislature.
{reg}Samuel Romero, head of the Congressional Governance Committee, announced this week that he will spearhead the Jalisco territorial delimitation and demarcation project. One of the aims of the initiative is to put an end to a half-dozen existing boundary conflicts that have been presented to the legislature for resolution.
One of the cases currently under consideration was submitted by the Chapala government to settle a beef with Jocotepec authorities. Chapala’s legal department filed the request two years ago after the Jocotepec government installed a large welcome sign over the highway. Chapala authorities maintain that the sign was set several hundred meters east of Jocotepec’s real boundary. There are also discrepancies over the exact dividing line between Chapala and Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos.
Romero reported that only 66 of Jalisco’s 126 municipalities have territorial delimitation decrees registered in the state archives. A total of 84 municipalities do not have decrees establishing their official denomination on record.
The committee’s preliminary analysis of the decrees indicated that many of the documents contain unreliable information dating back to the 19th century. The congressional project is intended to update and fill the gaps in official paperwork. The next step will be to draw up an accurate map of the entire state, a task that will fall on the shoulders of the state’s Institute Territorial Information.(/reg}
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