Casa de la Cacica explained

The Casa de la Cacica is a 16th-century Mixtec building complex in Teposcolula, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Its current name, meaning "house of the cacica" in Spanish, may refer to Doña Catalina de Peralta who took possession of the home in 1569.^[1]

References

Kiracofe, James B. . 1995 . Architectural Fusion and Indigenous Ideology in Early Colonial Teposcolula: The Casa de la Cacica: A Building at the Edge of Oblivion . Anales de Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas . 17 . 66 . 45–84 . 2008-04-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070710215846/http://www.analesiie.unam.mx/pdf/66_45-84.pdf . 2007-07-10 . dead .
Book: Terraciano, Kevin . 2001 . The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Ñudzahui History, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries . Stanford . Stanford University Press . 0-8047-3756-8 . 45861953.