lienzo

This lienzo is owned and operated by Miguel and Thelma Castro.

Charreada in Guadalajara 2007

Los Azteca, which dates back to the 1700s and is also a winery, is a lienzo charro, where Mexican style rodeos are held.

Yusfia Jiménez enjoys a cold Mexican beer at Los Azteca Hacienda Mexicana's unique bar. Los Azteca, which dates back to the 1700s and is also a winery, is a lienzo charro, where Mexican style rodeos are held. © Jane Ammeson 2009 2009

Yadira tells us that Los Azteca, which dates back to the 1700s and is also a winery, is a lienzo charro, where Mexican style rodeos are held.

The magic of Bernal, Queretaro: wine, opals and historic charm 2009

Yadira tells us that Los Azteca, which dates back to the 1700s and is also a winery, is a lienzo charro, where Mexican style rodeos are held.

The magic of Bernal, Queretaro: wine, opals and historic charm 2009

The lienzo suggests that the founders of Xiuhquilan were not Purépecha (Tarascan) Indians, but Náhuatl-speaking Toltecs, who migrated into the area from somewhere far to the east.

Did you know? Lots of "real" Aztec gold was only tumbaga. 2008

Marquez, Carlos F. "Gestionarán que el lienzo de Jucutacato sea resguardado en el estado".

Did you know? Lots of "real" Aztec gold was only tumbaga. 2008

The main drawing in the lienzo depicts a settlement called Xiuhquilan, shown as the focal point of five separate routes, each linking a string of villages.

Did you know? Lots of "real" Aztec gold was only tumbaga. 2008

His parents, "Don Manuel Varrios and Doña Catarina Ximenes Colon, Spaniards [and] residents of this city," promise to commission a lienzo, or painting, of the suffering child for the Virgen de la Soledad, the patron saint of the city of Oaxaca, and hang it in her shrine if he is cured of his malady.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

The lienzo reveals that Xiuhquilan's indigenous leaders held authority over several mineral deposits, sources of the copper ore essential to support the settlement's main economic activity of copper-smelting.

Did you know? Lots of "real" Aztec gold was only tumbaga. 2008

The lienzo was first exhibited in public, in the state capital Morelia, during the first state exhibition in 1877.

Did you know? Lots of "real" Aztec gold was only tumbaga. 2008