Las Relaciones Geográficas del siglo XVI de Nueva España: Análisis del inédito "Mapa de Tequaltiche"
Sixteenth-Century Geographical Relations of New Spain: Analysis of the Unpublished Tequaltiche Map

Summary/Abstract: During the year of 1577, the Council of the Indies sent a questionnaire to America to be answered by the Indian authorities. It was sent along with a written account and a painting of the area. Th anks to this, we have today a large documentary corpus, namely the Geographical Relations, which contains the map and written relations of Tequaltiche (Teocaltiche, Jalisco), one of the regional cabeceras de partido and which had great relevance during the Mixton War. Th e map, due to its recent discovery, is hitherto unpublished and has an essential importance to understand the historical evolution of the Altos de Jalisco during the sixteenth century. Th e Mixton War and its subsequent “pacifi cation”, as well as the control of the region during the Chichimeca War, mark the historical context in which this document is inserted. Th is, together with the fact that it presents the pre-Hispanic historical events, gives even greater importance to the map, since it allows to reconstruct to a certain extent the past of the Cazcanes from their point of view. In this paper, we will carry out the integral analysis of all the elements that make up the document, both external and internal, so that we can extract as much information as possible from it.

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