Pozos y capillas en la conquista espiritual en Nunkiní

Abstract

Urban colonialism was imposed during the conformation of the novo-Hispanic cities in the XVI century, in most cases these "new" cities were an overlapping of the pre-Hispanic urban trace, destruction of buildings for the construction of others that would govern the new political and religious order. In the case of Mayan towns this process was slow, just like the conquest, the continued use of their open places kept in force part of the trace and identity of the Mayan people. Water wells played an important role in the urban trace for a region that has no rivers or lakes. The Border Science research project established a horizontal and intercultural methodology for the understanding of the ways of inhabiting the territory by the native peoples, for the case of Nunkiní, the population prioritized the study of the multiple public water wells existing in the town. The study of the wells in the town of Nunkiní led us to actions of religious colonialism, as chapels coincided with publicwells, as partof an action to colonize  a public  place, perhaps with a marked Mayan meaning.