Copuz

The Copuces were one of the peoples of the Chichimeca country of Guanajuato, associated with the region around San Felipe. Accounts name a leader called Copuz and a war leader named Carangano. In the sixteenth century Chichimeca peoples resisted Spanish expansion into their lands, as mining settlements and the roads serving them advanced northward. The conflict lasted for decades and reshaped the frontier communities of central Mexico.