Sust. MASC. State ( 41 political demarcation; with coastline along the Mexican Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Guadalajara. Cocula originated the mariachi in its population. The demonym is "Jalisco". The name derives from the substantive náhoas ( 41 Nahuatl; «xalli", meaning sand, and «ixtli»: expensive, as well as the «co» locative ending: place. (Taken from the dictionary of aztequismos, Luis Cabrera )