ABSTRACT
The parish of San Miguel Duenas is situated in a valley southwest of Antigua Guatemala and Ciudad Vieja in the Department of Sacatepequez. This parish comprises the municipios of San Miguel Duenas, Santa Catarina Barahona and San Antonio Aguas Calientes with its aldeas of San Andrés Ceballos and Santiago Zamora. The explosions and smoking of Fuego have been a constant part of the lives of the inhabitants of these pueblos since their founding over 450 years ago. These pueblos, and almost all the towns in the immediate hinterland of the two early, permanent capitals of Spanish Central America, Santiago en Almolonga and Santiago de Guatemala, were established around 1530 by Spanish conquistadores-vecinos of the earlier of the two cities. Reconstruction of population movements in the six Quinizilapa pueblos will be based on a reduced series of tribute and tributary totals. Unfortunately, there are only four dates between 1575 and 1754-55 for which have population data for all six pueblos.
