Tacubaya

Tacubaya ( Nahuatl: Atlacuihuayan, Where, takes the spear thrower, a'tlatl in hand, Cui, of which Impersonal and locative hua yan ) is a neighborhood in the district of Miguel Hidalgo in Mexico City. The metro station in the center of the district also bears the name Tacubaya, where you will cross three lines. In pre-Hispanic times, the place was on the west bank of the now drained Lake Texcoco, and was an independent municipality.

History

Pre-Hispanic time

Atlacuihuayan belonged to Tepanec heartland and was taken in the course of the war against the Mexica Azcapotzalcos under Itzcoatl together with the other Tepanec locations in the Basin of Mexico. Probably from this conquest starting existed in Altacuihuayan possession of the ruling family of Tenochtitlan, which continued into the colonial period. It is unclear whether Atlacuihuayan had to have a local ruler line, at least their actual or alleged colonial temporal successors (as caciques in the 18th century detectable).

Colonial

In the early colonial period Atlacuihuayan was now under the name hispanisierten Tacubaya, as referred villa, which expresses an urban settlement medium importance. Together with his seat Coyoacan was Tacubaya to the 1529 awarded to Hernán Cortés possessions in the western part of the basin of Mexico. In the 17th century a local Indian Council body with Indian governor is detectable. In the 18th century, Tacubaya was eight, some remotely located districts: Santisima Trinidad, San Lorenzo, Santa María Nonoalco, San Pedro Tescaca, San Juan, Santo Domingo, Santiago and San Miguel.

Presence

Already in 1928, Tacubaya was incorporated in Mexico City. At the observatory Observatorio de Tacubaya worked, among others, the Mexican astronomer Guillermo Haro.