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 News about YucatánGerman engraving made from a story about Yucatans discovery (1521). Look how in the pictures: towers of “cal and singing”, idolatry, child sarifices stabbed and thrown into the steps of “buildings”, and the phisical presence of the devil (upper right corner). |  Pedro MartirPicture of Pedro Mártir of Anglería, first chronicler of Indias and author of his Decades of the New World |  IdeogramCover of the Francisco López of Gómara work, chaplain of Hernán Cortés who write it and publish it in Spain in 1552. |
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 Cover of BernalPortada de la obra de Bernal Díaz del Castillo, terminada en 1568 y publicada en Cover of the Bernal Díaz of Castillo work, finished in 1568 and published in Spain untill 1632. Despite its name, Real History... Bernal was wrongly considered a chronicler. In fact, amongst the traditional historians, his nickname was “the Cover of Bernal chronicler soilder" |  SolísHernán Cortés receiving from Diego Velázquez the armer for his expedition looking for the “captive christians” and other matters. |  SolísHernán Cortés in Cozumel overturning idols. Ilustration in the work of Antonio de Solís. |
 Shipwrecked, book of the third year.Page of the History of Yucatán book from third grade elementary school. Active. |  Arrival of the shipwreckedPicture of the arrival of the shipwrecked to Yucatan. (although it took 7 years untill the word Yucatán saw the public lights). Book for elementary school teachers. |
 SnakesMap that register the “lowest” who represented danger to the ships. In the original, South of Xamaica, the “snakes” can be found. Source: Antochiw, Cartographic History... |  Winds from RagónMap of Pierre Ragón about the airflows in the Gulf of Mexico and de Caribbean Sea. Those and the sea currents are similar and make shipwrecks flow from east to west. |  Shipwrecked JourneyJourney supposedly by the informants of Pedro Mártir (1514) and real journey of the shipwrecked that are known just after the appereance of Jerónimo de Aguilar, rescued by the army of Hernán Cortés (1519). |
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 Roys EcabFragment of the map of Roys of the “cacicazgo” of Ecab, in which resided Jerónimo de Aguilar in 1519, and in which it is assumed that the landing happened in 1512. |  Distance between Aguilar and GuerrerAproximate distance (in straight line) that supposedly Aguilar -according to Bernal Díaz del Castillo- had to walk in order to prevent Gonzalo Guerrero of the arrival of the Hernán Cortés army. |  Statue of Gonzalo Guerrero with his wife and one of his sons in Mérida, Yucatán. Currently, the statue is run a few feet to the west, because the original roundabout in wich it was located was eliminated. |
 Huge stone located beside the statue of Gonzalo Guerrero in Mérida, Yucatán. The legend say: “Gonzalo Guerrero. Father of miscegenation in Mexico. He fought and died defending mayans freedom” |  The statue of Gonzalo Guerrero in Mérida, Yucatán, surrounded by ads. |  The statue of Gonzalo Guerrero in Mérida, Yucatán, surrounded by ads. |
 The statue of Gonzalo Guerrero in Mérida, Yucatán, surrounded by ads. |  “Close up” of the Gonzalo Guerrero statue in Mérida, Yucatán. |
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