Barrio de Las Nueve Esquinas, Guadalajara

The Barrio de Las Nueve Esquinas (Spanish for quarter of the nine corners), also known as Barrio de San Francisco (quarter of St. Francis), is a barrio south of the center of Guadalajara, the capital of the state of Jalisco.

The quarter was created in the 16th century when Franciscans built a monastery in the previously unpopulated area between the city of Guadalajara to the north (today's city center) and the municipality of Mexicaltzingo to the south (today a district close to the city center).

To the southwest of today's Templo de San Francisco de Asís is the Plaza de Las Nueves Esquinas, which takes its name from the fact that nine streets converge on it. The partly peculiar street layout can be traced back to the former streams from neighboring Mexicaltzingo.

The district's heyday began in the early 19th century with the emergence of trade and traffic routes between Mexicaltzingo and Guadalajara, on the route of which it is located. The construction of a station for train traffic accelerated this development, so that the quarter attracted more and more people. The growing stream of visitors gave a man from the south of Jalisco the idea of offering his Birria there, which eventually became so established in the district that there are now several restaurants around the central Plaza de Las Nueves Esquinas that specialize in this traditional dish are specialized. Another specialty of this area is the trading and sale of pitayas.

The writer, ethnologist and screenwriter Francisco Rojas González was born in the barrio on August 11, 1904 and was awarded the Mexican Prize for Literature in 1944.