Re: First Mestizo

["Victor Villarreal" <vela_este@...>]

There are a couple more of statues of Gonzalo Guerrero but the 
pictures are very small also.

http://www.undiscoveredmexico.com/rivieramaya/akumal/

http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/qroo/Mpios/23004a.htm

And a painting:

http://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/espanol/historia/personajes/detall
e.cfm?idpag=4167&idsec=5&idsub=0

Victor


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Emilie Garcia" <auntyemfaustus@h...> 
wrote:
> The date that Gonzalo Guerrero, father of the first Mestizos, 
arrived in the new world was around the Spring of 1511 on a ship that 
landed on the Yucatan Peninsula, possibly in Cozumel, or Zama or 
Tulum or Ple la Xelha of today, according to the article about 
the "Estatua de Gonzalo Guerrero". The bronze statue is in the city 
of Merida, and shows a Spaniard in full regalia with an Indian squaw 
kneeling at his feet.  The photo is so small, and I tried finding 
another larger photo on the Internet to no avail
> 
> Emilie
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