EL GRULLO, JALISCO 2024 Y SU CONSTANTE CRECIMIENTO. PRESIDENCIA MUNICIPAL, PARROQUIA SANTA MARIA DE GUADALUPE, JARDIN MUNICIPAL Y OBELISCO. BARRIO EL CERRITO EL GRULLO. BARRIO EL POSITO SANTO. EL SAGRADO CORAZON. BARRIO CHARCO DE LOS ADOBES. ESCUELA SECUNDARIA JAIME TORRES BODET. El Grullo is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 157.2 km². It is named for a color, used for horses and grass, called grullo, used as the name of an Hacienda established there: "La Hacienda del Zacate Grullo". In recent years, the town of El Grullo has begun expanding and now has begun to construct suburban-style housing developments on the outer limits of the town. There have also been new points of interest adding in the town center such as an obelisk, a larger city hall, and accessible WiFi throughout the town center. As of 2014, there are about 30,000 residents living in the developing city limits. Six of the municipalities are considered to be the area's nucleus: Guadalajara, El Salto, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Tlaquepaque, Tonalá and Zapopan, with two others, Juanacatlán and Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos as suburbs.