Gribblenation

Jalisco State Highway 401 is a 92-kilometer route which can be found in southern portions of the Mexican state.  The highway originates at Federal Highway 80 near Acatlán de Juárez and terminates to the south at the boundary of Ciudad Guzmán.  The corridor effectively serves as the free alternative to Federal Highway 54D in the Acatlán de Juárez-Ciudad Guzmán and is aligned west of numerous dry lakes.  What is now Jalisco State Highway 401 was originally numbered as Jalisco State Highway 27.  The corridor was reassigned as Jalisco State Highway 54 in 1989 to provide a matching free surface routing to supplement Federal Highway 54D.  The modern route number was assigned somewhat recently and serves the parent route to numerous 4XX numbered Jalisco State Highways.   Part 1; the history of Jalisco State Highway 401 Prior to the establishment of the Jalisco State Highway system the towns now served by Jalisco State Highway 401 used frontages of t...