Cuencame

Cuencame is a metropolis within the Mexican country of Durango, is the county seat of Cuencame and is placed within the center east of the nation, in the Comarca Lagunera. The first settlers who inhabited the valley in which the populace of Cuencame, Dgo., Were zacatecos of the chichimecas tribes, the natural limits of the valley where this tribe become set up were: from the east part of the Sierra de Yerbaniz and the Sierra del Temascal, up to the Rio de las Nazas to the north, to the foothills of the Sierra de Jimulco to the east; the Sierra de Yerbaniz served as the herbal border between the Zacatecos and Tepehuanos; the Nazas river changed into the border among the zacatecos and the riverside tribes and lagoons, especially the irritilas, and to the south and southeast there have been the guachichiles.

The zacatecos grouped themselves round the prevailing springs inside the area and on the banks of the Cuencame Stream, in what at the moment are the communities of San Pedro de Ocuila, El Pueblo de Santiago, El Nogalito, Tierras Prietas, Pasaje and other factors, as discovered by the objects and vestiges located in these places with which a positive diploma of sedentarization is denoted.