Cocomacan

Cocomacan was an Otomi settlement in the country later known as Dolores. This region lay among territories inhabited by Guamares and other peoples whom the Spanish called Chichimecas. Colonial expansion into the area brought a long and bitter struggle over land and control. A viceregal order of about 1568–1570 called for the establishment of a congregation dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows at Cocomacan. Building began in 1643, and the settlement grew after a parish was created in 1710. In 1810 the parish priest Miguel Hidalgo called the people to arms at Dolores, beginning the revolt that became the Mexican War of Independence.