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In ancient times, a temple sacred to the Tarascan earth goddess Cueravaperi occupied the hilltop where the monastery of Zinapécuaro now st...

We continue our posts on the early missions around Lake Pátzcuaro with a page on one of the most important and best preserved, that of Asunc...

Almost all of the village churches around Lake Pátzcuaro, in western Michoacán, were established in some form by 1600. A t that time, thou...

We continue our coverage of early missions in Michoacan at Undameo, l ocated southwest of Morelia beside the Patzcuaro highway.    Santia...

We resume our survey of the early Missions of Michoacán with a f ollow up to our earlier post on the historic mission at Santiago  Angahuan ...

Totolapan after the earthquake In an earlier post we reported on the substantial damage suffered by the 16th century church of Totolapa...

In previous posts we reported on the damage caused by the 9/17 earthquake to the numerous barrio chapels of Tlayacapan, in Morelos.    Alt...