A medida que se acerca del Bicentenario de la Independencia en el Perú, crece el interés por las huellas de aquel acontecimiento decisivo de la historia del Perú. Singular y señero, sin duda, fue el Encuentro de Punchauca, entre el último virrey –General Laserna- y el Libertador también general José de San Martín, el 2 de junio de 1821. De ser en la época prehispánica una huaca dedicada a la divinidad solar “Punchao”, convertida en hacienda con capilla dedicada al apóstol Santiago en el Virreinato, transformada en hacienda agrícola y lugar de acogida del gran encuentro, por Resolución Ministerial Nº 0928-80-ED, del 23 de julio de 1980, fue declarada como Patrimonio Monumental de la Nación y por. Ley Nº 24722, de fecha 11 de setiembre de 1987, en que fue creado el Instituto de Investigación Cívico Patriótico e Histórico “Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza” se conv...

The house and chapel of the old Punchauca hacienda was declared a National Monumental Heritage Site in 1980. This recognition was given for having been the site, during the independence period, of the interview between the Liberator José de San Martín and the viceroy José de la Serna. However, after this declaration, the National Institute of Culture and today the Ministry of Culture have done little to carry out a complete delimitation of the intangible area, the legal physical sanitation, and to carry out an integral project of recovery and restoration of the monument, and its subsequent execution. Moreover, in recent years, the building has been cut down, affecting the integrity of the monument. In this sense, with the Bicentennial approaching and according to institutional documents of the State, we reviewed the actions carried out in P...

During the Spanish occupation of the territory of the viceroyalty of New Spain, various social nuclei were established. Thus cities, villages, forts and reductions of Indians were founded; and in other cases, ancestral villages were recognized as indigenous peoples. In the case of the current city of La Piedad de Cabadas, belonging to the state of Michoacán, Mexico, its initial process was different. Historically, it is based on two versions. One of them focuses on a discourse, without documentary support, of a Spanish foundation that would date back to 1530; The other version explains an origin from a religious perspective, linked to the miraculous appearance of a crucified Christ in 1687. However, research based on primary sources allows us to know different causes. The territory was part of the Mesoamerican P’urhépecha culture, which dominated western Mexico. Upon the arrival of t...

The house and chapel of the old Punchauca hacienda was declared a National Monumental Heritage Site in 1980. This recognition was given for having been the site, during the independence period, of the interview between the Liberator José de San Martín and the viceroy José de la Serna. However, after this declaration, the National Institute of Culture and today the Ministry of Culture have done little to carry out a complete delimitation of the intangible area, the legal physical sanitation, and to carry out an integral project of recovery and restoration of the monument, and its subsequent execution. Moreover, in recent years, the building has been cut down, affecting the integrity of the monument. In this sense, with the Bicentennial approaching and according to institutional documents of the State, we reviewed the actions carried out in P...