Notes on the Franciscans in the Huasteca Region of Mexico

Publisher： Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN： 1533-6247|11|3|429-447

ISSN： 0003-1615

Source： The Americas, Vol.11, Iss.3, 1955-10, pp. : 429-447

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Abstract

The huasteca region in northeastern Mexico covers sections of the six states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, Puebla, and Querétaro. Its boundaries are approximately the following: to the north the river Soto la Marina, known in the sixteenth century as the Rio de las Palmas; to the south the Rio Cazones; to the east the Gulf of Mexico and to the west the mountainous section of the eastern Sierra Madre.

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