Cocoyoc with Bobbi and John
A Mule for Sister Sarah and the closing scene from Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, were filmed in Cocoyoc.
Cocoyoc was conquered by the Aztecs in the fifteenth century shortly before the Spanish Conquest. The Aztec king took the daughter of the conquered king as his bride. Moctezuma the First resulted from this marriage and governed the Aztecs from 1440 to 1469.
Cortes married the daughter of Moctezuma II and was named the Marques del Valle de Oaxaca as a prize for the role he played in the Conquest. Cocoyoc formed part of this extensive land holding and was soon was populated with haciendas, growing sugar cane and other cash crops.
