Isla de Sacrificios

Isla de Sacrificios

Isla de Sacrificios ("Island of Sacrifices") is an island in Gulf of Mexico waters, situated off the Gulf coastline near the port of Veracruz, in Mexico. The waters surrounding the island are part of the Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano National Marine Park. It is currently closed to the public, and it is protected by the Secretariat of the Navy.

The island received its name when it was charted by the expedition in 1518 under Juan de Grijalva, the first Spanish expedition to reconnoitre this section of the Gulf Coast. According to the account of Bernal Díaz, a member of the expedition whose "Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España" famously recalls the exploits of the "conquistadores" on this and the succeeding venture led by Hernán Cortés, after landing on the island:

We found two stone buildings of good workmanship, each with a flight of steps leading up to a kind of altar, and on those altars were evil-looking idols, which were their gods. Here we found five Indians who had been sacrificed to them on that very night. Their chests had been struck open and their arms and thighs cut off, and the walls of these buildings were covered in blood. All this amazed us greatly, and we called this island the Isla de Sacrificios, as it is now named on the charts. [Díaz del Castillo (1963, p.37)]

In 1823 when the island was visited by the antiquities collector William Bullock, he found it to be a "mere heap of sand" and uninhabited, save for "only one wretched Indian family living on it". Some ruins of pre-Columbian buildings were still visible. Bullock also noted the island to be:

...strewed [sic] with the bones of British subjects who have perished in this unhealthy climate, and whose remains are not allowed to be buried in consecrated ground. [Bullock (1824, pp.10–11)]

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: cite book |author=aut|Adams, Richard E.W. |year=1991 |title=Prehistoric Mesoamerica |edition=Revised edition|location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=0-8061-2304-4 |oclc=22593466 : cite book |author=aut|Bullock, William |authorlink=William Bullock (collector) |year=1824 |title=Six months' residence and travels in Mexico; containing remarks on the present state of New Spain, its natural productions, state of society, manufactures, trade, agriculture, and antiquities, &c. |location=London |publisher=John Murray |oclc=59520808 : cite book |author=aut|Chiñas, Beverley Newbold |year=1989 |chapter=Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall |editor=Ute Gacs, Aisha Khan, Jerrie McIntyre, and Ruth Weinberg (eds.) |title=Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies |edition=Illini Books edition, Reprint of Westport, CT: Greenwood Press original [©1988] . |location=Urbana |publisher=University of Illinois Press |pages=pp.269–274|isbn=0-252-06084-9 |oclc=19670310: cite book |author=aut|Díaz del Castillo, Bernal |authorlink=Bernal Díaz del Castillo |year=1963 |origyear=1632 |title=The Conquest of New Spain |edition=6th printing (1973)|others=J. M. Cohen (trans.) |series=Penguin Classics|publisher=Penguin Books |location=Harmondsworth, England|isbn=0-14-044123-9 |oclc=162351797


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