Between Scarcity and Excess: Problems over Water in Santiago Tlatelolco during the Early Colonial Period Margarita Vargas-Betancourt Tulane University/University.

Presentación del tema: "Between Scarcity and Excess: Problems over Water in Santiago Tlatelolco during the Early Colonial Period Margarita Vargas-Betancourt Tulane University/University."— Transcripción de la presentación:

1 Between Scarcity and Excess: Problems over Water in Santiago Tlatelolco during the Early Colonial Period Margarita Vargas-Betancourt Tulane University/University of Florida 2013 Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory

2 Ordenanza del Señor Cuauhtemoc Folio 11r of the Ordenanza del Señor Cuauhtémoc; facsimile in Valle, Perla. Ordenanza del Señor Cuauhtémoc, translated by Rafael Tena. Mexico City: Gobierno del Distrito Federal, 2000.

3 Hydraulic system in the basin of Mexico. P. 85 in Vela, Enrique. “La cuenca de México a vuelo de pájaro.” Arqueología mexicana XII, No. 68 (July-August 2004): 82-87.

4 Location of the land represented in the Plano en papel maguey. Figure 12 in Toussaint, Manuel, Federico Gómez de Orozco, and Justino Fernández. Planos de la Ciudad de México. Siglos XVI y XVII. Estudio Histórico Urbanístico y Bibliográfico. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 1938.

5 Mexico City and Surrounding Areas Detail in Map of the basin of Mexico and its rivers by Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora; plate 18 in Apenes, Ola, Mapas Antiguos del Valle de México. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Historia, 1947.

6 Map of Mexico City flooded, 17 th century Plate 14 in Apenes, Ola, Mapas Antiguos del Valle de México. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Historia, 1947.

7 Santiago Tlatelolco’s plaza, detain in The Map of Santa Cruz Plate 2 in Apenes, Ola, Mapas Antiguos del Valle de México. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Historia, 1947.

8 Details of the murals in the Caja de Agua Guilliem Arroyo, Salvador. Caja de Agua. Imperial Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Santiago Tlatelolco. Mexico City: Zona Arqueolόgica Tlatelolco, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2008.

9 Possible location of the land disputed between Santiago Tlatelolco and Azcapotzalco. Google maps.