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Cuilapam

Cuilapam Guerrero is a Mexican population of the state of Oaxaca, located in the south of the central valleys of that entity.

It is a Mixtec village of origin, so at first it was called Sahayuco, which means foot of the hill. Later he adopted the name Cuilapam Quayugol and Ampa-Valle.According to various etymologies Cuilapam has many meanings: "place is behind," or "back water", although some authors attribute the name to the following roots: Cuitla, "dirt" and bread, "in, on," means "garbage, garbage dump" Guerrero, who was shot in that place the hero Vicente Guerrero, in the year 1831.

Temple Cuilapam Guerrero, also known as the Convent of St. James, is a majestic architectural work that was begun in 1559 and was never completed. It was planned to attract as many indigenous people who converted to Catholicism, the gigantic dimensions that exhibits suggest that having finished it might have been the best and most beautiful monument of colonial Spanish America. Open excel Chapel, Church of unfinished basilica and the Ex-Convento. One of the most representative colonial buildings of Oaxaca. The people of Cuilapam Guerrero is 10 km from the capital. This was shot Gen. Vicente Guerrero a February 14, 1831.

Ex-convent Cuilapam

The Dominican church and former convent Cuilapam Guerrero appear in the distance, a fortress overlooking the valley in which it is located. It was built on a small hill with a spectacular view. The thick walls of green stone and river rocks keep silent much of the history of the encounter of different cultures: the Spanish, Zapotec and laMixteca. Today the former convent is a quiet place where the footprints produced echoes in the corridors and chambers but it is easy to imagine the place full of movement of the Dominican monks, walking, praying, preaching, studying or doing homework on a typical day .
There are murals, mostly in black and white on the inside walls of the former convent. There are also paintings of priests on the second floor, which unfortunately are almost lost by the effect of passing time. The National Institute of Anthropology and HistoriaINAH occupies many rooms on the second floor and restoration workshops

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Nave of the church of St. James, part of the Convent of Cuilapan in Oaxaca (Mexico). Cuilapam Convent is located in the municipality of Cuilapam of Guerrero, in the region of the Central Valleys of Oaxaca. This is a XVI century building, with impressive dimensions, but that was never completed. Among its most distinctive architectural spaces is an open chapel, religious building type characteristic of the early years after the conquest of Mexico, designed for the purpose of gathering a greater number of indigenous people who converted to Catholicism.
Guerrero Cuilapan Description It was founded by the Dominicans in the second half of the sixteenth century. The first constructor of the convent was the Portuguese Antonio Barbosa, later replaced by Agustín Salazar, who is responsible for most of the set. Construction was suspended by the Royal Court, due to its location within the grounds of the Marquis del Valle de Oaxaca.
The architectural complex is very characteristic for its manufacturing base of green stone (beige today by the passage of time), and mainly by the Renaissance and Gothic lines applied in the construction and decorative elements of buildings that comprise, among them : open chapel, temple, monastery and cloister.

Temple The temple oriented from west to east save a perpendicular position with respect to the chapel of the three ships. It should be noted that the first half of this temple is unfinished. Following the guided tour, appears first on the north side façade, has access to arch over jamb boards. Access is framed by pilasters and Ionic columns and urns hold entablatures denticulate bulbs. The second front (west side) has more character Renaissance contains two pairs of Tuscan columns supporting a pediment denticulate, in which contained an emblem Dominico eardrum. On the pediment two windows uproots corals arch and lintel.
The interior has a nave of four bays and an apse. The first two installments are discovered, and the two remaining covered with domes. The apse or altar is covered with a barrel vault encasetonada. Behind the altar contains a seventeenth century Baroque altarpiece. On the walls are still preserved Dominican shelves containing the remains of ribs, indicating that the ship would be covered with Gothic rib vaults. In the first installment for the choir loft, on the north side is located the baptistery, excel access ogee arch and a sixteenth-century font.