The Tzintzuntzan cartography as an auxiliary tool to rebuild the jurisdiction of an Indian city in the viceregal era

Abstract

The mapping allows us to see the space that occupied other societies, also to tell us their concept of landscape in which developed their daily lives. This is the case of two maps that have been derived from an original, today lost, from the city of Tzintzuntzan, currently a magic town of the state of Michoacán. The analysis of these two important maps allows us to see their subject towns, the transformations that the Lake of Pátzcuaro has had and, without a doubt, the urban environment of the city. However, it highlights the great jurisdiction which encompassed the old and firs city of Michoacán and their towns that surrounded her, as the rival city of Pátzcuaro.