 To date, no consensus has been reached on the meaning of the name, so it is preferable to give credit to the assistant and assistant chronicler of the municipality, who has access to sources of high historical value of the place.What Leobardo Viramontes confirms is that from 1600 he is already known as Huanusco.During the colony, the municipality settled by Tlaxcaltecan Indians who were brought by Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza to replace the natives who were transferred to the Jalisco coast, because it represented a serious risk of insurrection.