Abstract

CASTANEDA DE LA PAZ, María. The Map of Cuitlahuac from 1656. A struggle for the distribution of the resources of the Sierra de Santa Catarina. An. antropol. [online]. 2019, vol.53, n.2, pp.95-107.  Epub Nov 20, 2019. ISSN 2448-6221.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iia.24486221e.2019.2.67094.

Cuitlahuac was an ancient señorío located in the southern part of Mexico City that today is known as Tláhuac. Because of its location on an island in the middle of Lake Chalco, it was barely able to survive in the Colonial period, when the land from which it previously only received tribute acquired commercial value. It was then that a series of legal disputes began between the cabecera and its subject towns on the bank of the lake, at the feet of the Santa Catarina Mountains, over the control of lands and tezontle quarries. The map of 1656 was made in this context, on the occasion of one of the many vistas de ojos that were made in the area.

Keywords : Cuitlahuac; Tláhuac; Mexico City; cartography; Colonial period; land disputes.