Abstract

BATTCOCK, Clementina  and  GOTTA, Claudia Andrea. La resemantización de un espacio sagrado en la Nueva España: Cuepopan, de mojonera y escenario ritual a Santa María la Redonda. Cuicuilco [online]. 2011, vol.18, n.51, pp.137-156. ISSN 0185-1659.

Cuepopan-Tlaquechiuhca was one of the neigborhoods of Mexico-Tenochtitlan and the medullary setting in the wars between tenochca and tepanecs, between Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco. At the time, in one of its partialities: Copolco, rituals were ministered, giving it an inclination of "sacred space". With this article we are interested in giving account, by confronting various sources and investigations made by historians and archaeologists, of how the ritualistic role of this neigborhood was resemanticized after the spanish conquest, from a new symbolic capital - the franciscan presence- playing a significant part in the deterritorialization of the mexica imaginary.

Keywords : Tenochtitlan; Tlatelolco; Cuepopan/Tlaquechiuhca; neighborhood; sacred space.