About San Luis Potosí

The economic base during the times of New Spain was mining. Thisbrought about the foundation of a settlement that gave birth to citieslike San Luis Potosí.

Around 1592, silver was discovered in the east of San Luis, in theCerro de San Pedro, consequently, this brought about a large Spanishimmigration.  The town would become a geographical and administrativecenter, so that a link was established between Cerro de San Pedro andthe processing, commercial and service centers, consolidating thebases of its development.
The ranches (haciendas) were built as a land organization system inthe region, classifying them as benefit, cattle, agricultural or mixedranches.  It was the seventeenth century: a time of expansion andconsolidation of many settlements; this hacienda system immersed in abundance followed the discovery of that precious metal.
The city was organized according to its original outline, which consisted of a central plaza and nineteen blocks extended towards the four cardinal points.  San Luis Minas del Potosí was the one that attracted many immigrants towards its prosperity, who started to establish themselves around it, building neighborhoods and towns.

Among others, the neighborhood of Tequisquiapan, a place of fertile lands in which Guachichil Indians settled toward 1583; Tlaxcalilla was founded in 1592 and was considered of great importance thanks to the Franciscan monastery  built there.  In Tlax...more info