Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila
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How it came to be
Fields of blue agave stretch between the Tequila volcano and the deep valley of the Rio Grande in Jalisco, western Mexico. Between AD 200 and 900 the Teuchitlán culture built terraces, houses, temples and ball courts here, and agave has been used for at least 2,000 years for fermented drinks and cloth.
Franciscan friars founded the village of Santiago de Tequila in 1530. The Spanish brought distillation to the local fermented drink, and in 1600 Pedro Sánchez de Tagle built a large distillery. Large plantations followed in the 17th century.
Tequila drinking spread around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries, and old distilleries such as La Rojeña, founded in 1795, still work. The name has been protected by the Mexican government since 1974. In 2006 the fields, distilleries and the towns of Tequila, El Arenal and Amatitán were inscribed.
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