Cutzamala is an archaeological site in the northern Guerrero region of

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. During the Postclassic period in

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the settlement of Cutzamala served as a garrison outpost of the Tarascan state, and according to ethnohistorical sources such as the ''Relaciones geográficas'' was stationed with a contingent of up to ten thousand Purépecha warriors during the period of conflict between the Purépecha and the

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."Background"
(Silverstein 2001)

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* Purépecha sites Archaeological sites in Guerrero {{mesoamerica-stub