Tamazula recently gained city status after the 2010 census reported that the municipality had 37,986 residents. A vast majority of the city's residents are employed at the Ingenio Azucarero de Tamazula, S.A. de C.V. where
sugar cane from the surrounding vicinities within the municipality is turned into sugar and alcohol. The
ingenio (
sugar mill) as it is known by the people here is the major source of revenue for the city and the municipality as a whole, followed by tourism and trade. On October 17, 2007: Adrián Gil Pérez, the chronicler of the city, made public a proposal to name the town from this date forward as
"La perla del sureste de Jalisco", or the Pearl of the Southeast of Jalisco. ==Festivities==