"We arranged to go to the fortified town already mentioned by me, which was called Quiahuitzlan. The ships were to go to the rock and harbour which was opposite that town, about a league distant from it."
    Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, XXIX, page 86.
 

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Villa Rica, near the islet, as seen from Quiahuitzlan	Cortes' ships anchored around the rock (center) in the ocean.

Villa Rica, on the shore, near the anchor rock.	Controlled slash-and-burn agriculture