 .Huanusco is one of the municipalities located in the southwest of Zacatecas, in the region recognized as Juchipila Canyon.Leobardo Viramontes Flores, deputy chronicler of the municipality, tells us, in historical notes of Huanusco, that there are vestiges that during the pre-Hispanic era, members of the Caxcan tribe (of nomadic nature) spent long stays in the surroundings of what is now the municipal seat, in a place known as Las Liebres.