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In Zapotec, Guelacé means “corn field," or in Spanish, “milpa de elote." In Zapotec, gulá means milpa/cornfield and xeé means elote/corn, hence the name, “milpa de elote.” Oral tradition says that the inhabitants of Guelacé are descendants of the people of San Juan Teitipac, the community to which the land of Guelacé once belonged when the area was being colonized by the Spanish. During this period, as the story goes, “in the season when the corn was tender” 26 people left their fields to set up their homes in what is now called Guelacé. Guelacé is still a small community with about 800 inhabitants and still primarily dedicated to agriculture.
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