Serial Number
040-00176
Title
Padre Juan Ortiz Zapata partido de Santa Maria de Batuco from relacion de los misiones que tiene la compania en...el Nueva Vizcaya...1676.
Author(s)
Ortiz Zapata, Juan (Fray)
Date
TA-, -1676
Documentation
N.p. n.d. (1676). Relacion. Transcription.
Summary
1296 inhabitants divided among 3 pueblos. Inhabitants all 3 pueblos speak nogue (Opata), work in Spanish mines/ poblaciones area, manifest satisfactory religious devotion. People Santa Maria de Batuco ladinus, some of whom speak Spanish, well-dressed, industrious agriculturalists. People San Xavier de Batuco live at times in reales de Mina, returning to Pueblo at other times people Depatzi (Tepachi) miners, muy ladinos. Evidence rapid linguistic/religious/economic acculturation Opatas due to significant Spanish penetration Rio Moctezuma area. Notes geographical location, presence flat- roofed-houses (Casas de terrado). (T. Sheridan) (1976)
Persons
Fernandez Cabero, Juan (Padre)
Ortiz Zapata, Juan (Fray)
Places
Santa Maria de Batuc (Batuco)
San Xavier de Batuco
Santa Ana y San Joachin de Depatzi (Tepachi)
Moctezuma (Rio)
Ethnic Groups
Opatas
First Location
CU-BANC. C-B 840 (Bolton Col.) no. 0265 pp. 0678-0680 Transcpt
Original Location
AGN, Mexico, Misiones, Leg. 0026
Language
Spanish
Notes
Heaviest mining penetration yet noted.
Batch Reference Number
1909
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