Next up are the still-occupied local INDIAN DWELLINGS:

And finally, the forsaken buildings of the Mexican village of “Camaron,” abandoned like the nearby canal when fighting in the area grew too heavy for the local inhabitants to endure*:

*NOTE:  This occured during the “War of the Reform” fought from 1857-1860, a Mexican  civil conflict pitting Liberal and Conservative Mexican forces against each other.  Though the main Conservative armies surrendered in 1860, many Conservative guerillas remained active in the field, and a few years later Conservative forces planned their alliance with Emperor Napoleon III, which helped trigger his Intervention and bring Maximillian Hapsburg of Austro-Hungary to Mexico, to be installed as the ill-fated Emperor Maximillian I.

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The reason there was so much fighting in the immediate vicinity of CAMARON was the MAIN ROAD around which the village had grown into existence, which connected Vera Cruz — on the Atlantic Coast to the East — with Puebla to the West.