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Friends, I am sharing with you images of the famous Taquería la Lupita, located inside the market of the Barrio de Santiago.
This taqueria has appeared three times on the Netflix Platform, such as "Las Crónicas del Taco".
Their specialty is tacos and tortas de cochinita and lechón al tostado.
THEY ALSO HAVE LIME SOUP, BLACK FILLING, ETC.
The Barrio de Santiago is one of the most famous in the city of Mérida.
The Barrio de Santiago in Mérida, Mexico, is a neighborhood in the capital city of Yucatán, located west of the historic center. It is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, since it was organized as such after the founding of the city in 1542 and served to concentrate and house the indigenous Mayan population found by the Spanish living in what were the ruins of the old Mayan city of T'Hó, during the process of conquest of Yucatán led by Francisco de Montejo (the Younger) on the instructions of his father, the namesake, the adelantado.
History of the neighborhood
In the years of the conquest, the neighborhood was a hamlet located on the road that led to the town of Cupules and that depended on the kuchkabal of Chakán whose batab resided in Caucel. When the conquerors arrived and settled in the ruins of T'Hó to found Mérida, the site that is now called Barrio de Santiago remained, in the outskirts of the city in formation, as an Indian village where the labor force that the Europeans required to build the city was concentrated. Some of the indigenous people from central Mexico, brought by the conquistadors with them, were also housed here.
A church was built in the 17th century, and was completed in 1637. Adjacent to the church is a small chapel with a plaque stating that the first mass in a chapel in Mérida was held there, which would place its initial construction (although the chapel was almost entirely rebuilt in 1925) in the second half of the 16th century.
Jacinto Canek
Jacinto Canek, a Mayan leader who rebelled against the Spanish in 1761, lived in this neighborhood, for which he was sacrificed by torture in the public square as a warning to the Mayan population of the peninsula. As a result of this event, some residents of the neighborhood were arrested and imprisoned, accused of participating in the rebellion, even though it had taken place in Cisteil, hundreds of kilometers away. During the caste war, already in the 19th century, several residents of the neighborhood were also suspected of encouraging and participating in the insurrection and were arrested for this fact. Even Francisco Uc, the chief of the neighborhood, was executed on the accusation that he collaborated with the Mayan rebels. His remains rest in the neighborhood church.
During the beginning of the henequen era
The urban importance of the Santiago neighborhood increased in the second half of the 19th century since it was the obligatory passage and, properly speaking, the beginning of the Camino Real from the city of Mérida to the port of Sisal, from where the henequen fiber was exported during the years of the initial boom of the agroindustry.