San Agustín de las Cuevas (Tlalpan)

The "Plano" is a colonial pictorial manuscript from what is now Tlalpan, in the southern part of Mexico City. The manuscript is currently located in the Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), Ramo de Tierras, volume 2999, folder 15. It is reproduced here with the permission of the Archivo and the cooperation of its editors. The AGN published this manuscript in facsimile in book form as: Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz, eds., Transcripción y traducción del Plano de San Agustín de la Cuevas, Hoy Tlalpan, 2002. Ignacio Silva Cruz is participating in the presentation of this digital version. [SW]

Principal editor: 
Ignacio Silva Cruz and Stephanie Wood

Transcriptions and Translations

Analytic Transcription English Translation Literal Transcription Spanish Translation Standardized Transcription
Agustín Tlalpacnecatl (a person's name; also means a person from Tlalpan). [SW] "Agustín Tlalpanecatl." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz] "Agustin Tlalpanecatl." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz]
They established the palace there at the boundary of the white willows. [SW] "El lindero de San Agustín es donde están formados los ahuejotes." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz] "Oncan tecpantoque huehuexocuaxochtli San Agustin." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz]
They established the palace there at the boundary of the white willows. [SW] "Límite de ahuejotes." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz] "Huexotl Cuaxochtli." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz]
Diego Ayacaxayacahuicoltzin played here. [SW] "Aquí tocó Diego Ayacaxayacahuicoltzin." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz] "Otlapitz Diego Ayacaxayacahuicoltzin." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz]
Agustín Tlalpacnecatl (a person's name; also means a person from Tlalpan). Xalpan (a place name; or it means "on the sand"). [SW] "Agustín Tlalpanecatl." "En el arenal." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz] "Agustin Tlalpanecatl." "Xalpan." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz]
The road to Tepipilco continues past here. [SW] "Aquí sigue el camino de Tepipilco." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz] "Ynic tlamelahua tetepilco." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz]
"Diego Tlacpalos." (A person's name.) [SW] "Diego Tlacpalos." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz]
Marcos Xocohuicoltecatl. (A person's name.) Agustín Xalpanecatl. (A person's name.) Over there is where they played (musical instruments), on the belly-button (i.e. in the middle) of the boundary-hill. It is the property of our children of San Agustín de las Cuevas. [SW] "Marcos Xocohuicoltecatl." "Agustín Xalpanecatl." "Allá es donde tocaron, en el centro del lindero del cerro, son suyos hijos nuestros de San Agustín de las Cuevas." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz] "Marcos Xocohuicoltecatl." "Agustin Xalpanecatl." "Ynic onpa otlapitzque ycpac xictli, quaxochtepetl ca yn maxcan yn topilhuan San Augustin de las Cuebas." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz]
"Lucas Acatzacualtecatl." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz]
"Marcos Xocohuicoltecatl." [Santos Herrera de la Rosa and Ignacio Silva Cruz]