Tequila, Jalisco city's diverse Mexican heritage. Other sister cities include Jelenia Góra, Poland. Tequila, Jalisco Santiago de Tequila ( ; "place of tribute") is a Mexican town and municipality located in the state of Jalisco about 60 km from the city of Guadalajara. Tequila is best known as being the birthplace of the drink that bears its name, “tequila,” which is made from the blue agave plant, native to this area. The heart of the plant contains sugars and had been used by native peoples here to make a fermented drink. After the Spanish arrived, they took this fermented beverage and distilled
Zoogoneticus tequila Zoogoneticus tequila Zoogoneticus tequila, Tequila splitfin or simply Tequila fish, is a species of goodeid fish (family Goodeidae) from Mexico. The specific epithet, "tequila", derives from the Tequila Volcano, which looms near the type locality. "Zoogoneticus tequila" is endemic to the Ameca River basin in west-central Mexico. Its current distribution is restricted to a single spring pool in Teuchitlán, only in diameter, where a population consisting of less than 50 adult fish live. Even in this habitat, it is outnumbered by introduced guppies by a factor of six. Before the discovery of the pool population in 2000/2001, "Zoogoneticus tequila" was