Last updated on July 5th, 2024 at 01:49 pm

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@Regranned from @cantinaexperimental – The Copper
The Barba Family, originals of Santa Clara del cobre michoacan is a native family that have been hand crafting cooper for four generations in their workshop, their superior craftmanship inspired us to develop all the cocktail tools of @cantinaexperimental in cooper. Using all the different techniques they master we immortalized all the elements of the beautiful sierra madre cloud forest that surrounds our Hacienda and Cantina Experimental.
Location: Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacan

This area, like the rest of the Lake Pátzcuaro region, was settled by the Purépecha people starting from the 12th century. In this area, the Purépecha founded villages such as Churucumeo, Cuirindicho, Andicua, Huitzila, Taboreca and Itziparátzico with the village closest to the modern town of Santa Clara del Cobre being Xacuaro. Of Mesoamerican cultures, only the Purépecha and the Zapotec peoples in Oaxaca were able to extensively use copper. The Purépecha were the most advanced in metallurgy, with the ability to fashion bells, decorations, jewelry and tools such as axes. They also knew how to inlay gold into copper objects.

At the beginning of the Conquest, most natives here fled the Spaniards, but were later enticed to return by the Spanish to continue their former trades. The immigrants also introduced new methods of smelting and working copper.

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