Cotija

Cotija is a Mexican metropolis within the kingdom of Michoacan and head of the municipality of Cotija. There are exclusive versions approximately the exact date of the founding of the metropolis. However, the Reverend Priest Jose Romero Vargas devoted several years of his lifestyles to the historic research of this, which turned into his place of origin. After several years of survey he determined that this turned into the most possible and proper version of the Cotija basis. During the primary years of Spanish rule he become part of the encomienda of Tarecuato Tepehuacan, granted to Don Antonio Caicedo.

In the closing zone of the 16 century the viceroy authorized Spanish families to settle in the valley, forming a congregation in the corregimiento of Tinguindin. Between 1575 and 1576 on the website that the ancients called Cotixa, and really close to a crystalline circulation that later referred to as El Rio Claro, Don Melchor Manzo de Corona placed his living houses. With him additionally got here his wife, Mrs. Juana Perez, his children Melchor and Leonor, and some indigenous people, consisting of Juan Alonso, born in Tacatzcuaro.