Tacubaya
Tacubaya [ takuβaja ] ( Nahuatl : Atlacuihuayan, Where the spear thrower, a'tlatl , takes in hand, Cui , of which Impersonal hua and locative yān ) is a neighborhood in the district of Miguel Hidalgo in Mexico City . The subway station in the center of the district also bears the name Tacubaya, where three lines intersect. In pre-Hispanic times the place was on the west bank of the now drained Texcoco Lake and was an independent municipality.
history
Pre-Hispanic time
Atlacuihuayan belonged to the Tepanec heartland and was taken during the war of the Mexica against Azcapotzalco under Itzcóatl together with the other Tepanec places in the basin of Mexico. Presumably based on this conquest, the ruling family of Tenochtitlan also owned property in Altacuihuayan, which lasted until the colonial era. It is unclear whether Atlacuihuayan had a local line of rulers, in any case their actual or alleged successors from the colonial era (can be proven as caciques in the 18th century).
Colonial times
In the early colonial days, Atlacuihuayan, now under the Hispanic name Tacubaya, was referred to as a villa , which means an urban settlement of medium importance. Together with his seat Coyoacan, Tacubaya belonged to the possessions in the western part of the basin of Mexico, which were given to Hernán Cortés in 1529 . In the 17th century there was evidence of a local Indian council with an Indian governor. In the 18th century, Tacubaya had eight, partly remote districts: Santísima Trinidad, San Lorenzo, Santa María Nonoalco, San Pedro Tescaca, San Juan, Santo Domingo, Santiago and San Miguel.
present
Tacubaya was incorporated into Mexico City as early as 1928. At the Observatory Observatorio de Tacubaya among other things, the Mexican working astronomer Guillermo Haro .
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Gibson: The Aztecs under spanish rule . Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA 1964.
- ↑ Araceli Peralta Flores: Hallazgos en el Metro de la Ciudad de México . INAH, México 1996. ISBN 968-29-5248-4