Paredones (colloquially ‘el rancho’) is a village belonging to the municipality of La Piedad, Michoacan, Mexico. Across from the mountain ‘el Cerro Grande’ and at the base of the mountain colloquially referred to as ‘el Cerro’, the dwellings of Paredones are built. Paredones is located in a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate. It is temperate: there is a dry winter and hot, rainy summer. During an oral history, my relative Martin, told me it was first inhabited around the eighteenth century with some unmarried sisters named Paredes.
