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cactus. In the following tabulation we give the title of 1534, and their equivalents according to 



names of boundary points as they appear in the the people of Quiroga at present: 



Titulo l5Si Modern names or presumptive location 



Monte Tzirate Uataro The mountain El Tzirate. 



Cerrito Aramet Cerrito de las Rosas or Ichapetiro. 



Arbol Ucaciret Cerrito de las Piedras, by potrero Tepamal. 



Ojo de agua Ytzipararacu On Mesa de Santa Fe. 



Cerrito Uarapo Cerro Huarapo or San Miguel. 



Uaricho Angameo Somewhere by the lake. 



Piedra Tzacapo Casangario in patio of the chapel of Outskirts of the habitations in the rancho of Patambicho. 



Patambicho. 



Zitzicuaro Outskirts of Los Corrales. 



Yracho ??? 



Arbol Alamo Rancho Los Alamos. 



Monte Tupusohuato Loma del Metate near El Tigre. 



A stone's throw from the chapel of San Miguel Guarazo ??? 



Loma Guatzivet chagaricu Cuesta de las Tres Cabezas near Capula on old road to 



Morelia. 



Monte Yraocojuato The hill Yrauco, belonging to Sanambo. 



Piedra que echa lumbre on camino real from Pdtzcuaro to Piedra de La Luna, north of Icudcato. 



Chucdndiro. 



Monte Tzirate Uato El Tzirate. 



Since representatives of San Juan Icudcato were 

 present, we doubt that the piedra que echa lumbre 

 (stone which strikes fire) was the same as the 

 present Piedra de la Luna which is a large im- 

 bedded rock on the northwestern limits of modern 

 Icuacato. To bacli our belief that Icudcato did 

 not belong to Cocupao during the sLxteenth and 

 seventeenth centuries is the fact that Icuacato 

 was a barrio of the Pueblo of Xaxo or Sajo when it 

 was congregated with Teremendo, Coro, Tzintzi- 

 macato, Carupo, San Pedro Chicudcuaro, and 

 Asajo in 1603. There is no mention of Atzimbo 

 or Caringaro during the sLxteenth century, al- 

 though their present areas fall well within the 

 boundaries outlined above for Cocupao. Although 

 Sanambo is mentioned (along with Zirandangacho, 

 Yaguaro, Ihuatzio, etc.) in 1569 as a barrio within 

 the doctrina or parish of Tzintzuntzan, we have 

 no idea as to its location during the sixteenth cen- 

 tury. Zirandangacho is mentioned as an Infante 

 pueblo of the period 1539-54, and in the maps 

 reproduced by Beaumont and Seler from about 

 1540 it appears in approximately its present 

 location. Cocupao, in the same maps of about 

 1540, appears in its present location with reference 

 to the indicated positions of Santa Fe, the Cerro 

 Huarapo, Lake Pdtzcuaro, and Zirandangacho. 



We can imagine the Quiroga of 1534 as being an 

 aggregation of four or five groups of huts sprawled 

 over the slopes between La Tep6ricua and the 

 Arroyo del Cerro Azul on the east and the Arroyo 



de Quiroga and Atzitzindaro on the west. Prob- 

 ably in the same year a small church was built 

 (with San Diego de Alcala as its patron saint) 

 near the site of the present church, which was 

 visited occasionally by Franciscan friars from 

 Tzintzuntzan 5 miles away. The titulo of 1534 

 provided for the building of a church, and the 

 pronomen of San Diego would indicate that the 

 matter was under way. Although we know that 

 a Franciscan convent dependent on that of Tzint- 

 zuntzan was buQt in the block just east of the 

 present parish church, and that a hospital (Indian 

 community house and not an infirmary) or guata- 

 pera was constructed where the municipal building 

 is now, probably they were not erected until after 

 the oidor Quiroga had become the bishop of 

 Michoacdn; i. e., after 1538 and possibly not until 

 after the visit of the Franciscan Ponce in 1586. 

 The friars organized the above-mentioned groups 

 of habitations into wards or barrios of the village 

 with a chapel and patron saint for each. Only 

 four names have come down into the nineteenth 

 century (of which only one — San Miguel — is still 

 used) , and this tends to confirm our idea that there 

 were only four nuclear communities in Cocupao 

 proper. Besides San Miguel, there were La 

 Ascension, San Francisco, and San Bartolo. The 

 barrio of San Miguel, or, as it is more commonly 

 known. El Calvario, occupies the highest portion 

 of Quiroga in the northern parts of cuarteles II and 

 III above the streets known as Comonfort, Olivo, 



