Betania, Jalisco

Betania is a town in Ayotlán Municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The population was 2,690 according to the 2020 census. The 2005 census had recorded a population of 2,849 inhabitants.

The city is named after the Palestinian city of Bethany now known as al-Eizariya, with the name originating from the Aramaic and Hebrew word Beth anya (בית עניא), meaning "house of the figs"; the literal translation of the Spanish name Betania.