Fray Juan de San Miguel and the founding of Uruapan (1540)

A Franciscan who learned Tarascan in 1536, founded a string of towns in the sierra of Michoacán with a church and a hospital in each, and in 1540 laid out Uruapan himself — site, plaza, streets, orchards, schools of letters and of music, and a chapel at the end of every street, nine of which still stood in 1862. The people he gathered were in the sierra because Nuño de Guzmán had killed their king, and the same source that praises him says so.