The Initial configuration of the Road Networks and transport systems in colonial Michoacán. First half of 16th Century

Abstract

The paper makes an analysis of the irst road formation in the colonial
era in Michoacán, from its prehispanic origins until the decade
of 1560. It describes how the prehispanic routes contributed to colonial
expansion and how Michoacán incorporated gradually a colonial
network of roads that would exceed their original prehispanic limits.
With this development, the original roads experienced a process of enlargement
through the introduction of new forms of animal transport,
a transcendent event in the analysis of the transformation of roads.