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
  1. 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.
  2. "Santa María la Redonda". www.intranet.cultura.df.gob.mx. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  3. Ornelas, Candy E. "Síntesis Histórica de la Parroquia Santa María la Redonda, Ciudad de México". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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