Tacambaro

Tacámbaro stands in the highlands of Michoacán, overlooking the warmer valleys of the Tierra Caliente. It became one of the first Augustinian centres in the region after the Spanish conquest. Around 1538 Juan de San Román and Diego de Chávez began a church and convent, assisted by the encomendero Cristóbal de Oñate. A hospital and chapel served the Indigenous community, while the friars worked in settlements farther into the hot lowlands.