Atotonilco El Alto
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Atotonilco El Alto is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico in Los Altos (Jalisco) region. The municipality covers an area of 638.15 km².
Atotonilco (pronounced ah-toh-toh-NEAL-co) means "place of hot waters", in Náhuatl. "El Alto"("The High One") was later added in honor of those who died in the Cristero War in the early 1920s.