Santa María la Redonda
Santa María la Redonda is a traditional neighborhood located in the Cuauhtémoc municipality of Mexico City now part of colonia Guerrero close to Tepito and La Lagunilla. Even is not a formal colonia, Santa María la Redonda is a recognized and traditional zone formed after the Conquest of Mexico on one of the four original neighborhoods (campan) of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, Cuepopan-Tlaquechiuhca[1].
Mesoamerican period
The current area of Santa María La Redonda was the Cuepopan-Tlaquechiuhca, one of the four campan or neighborhoods part of the original island of Mexico Tenochtitlan. As a campan the neighborhood has the right to have a main temple devoted to the area. This temple was located in the area that occupies today the Temple of Santa María la Redonda, stablished in 1524 by Pedro de Gante[2][3].
References
- ^ Battcock, Clementina; Gotta, Claudia Andrea (2011). "La resemantización de un espacio sagrado en la Nueva España: Cuepopan, de mojonera y escenario ritual a Santa María la Redonda". Cuicuilco. 18 (51): 137–156. ISSN 0185-1659.
- ^ "Santa María la Redonda". www.intranet.cultura.df.gob.mx. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
- ^ Ornelas, Candy E. "Síntesis Histórica de la Parroquia Santa María la Redonda, Ciudad de México".
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