distribuidorUSA
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Not where I was born.now I will take all the coffe you want.I will relax a little.
The building where Cortes was housed and where they held Moctzuma prisoner included a walled in room. They broke in and found a treasure Diaz estimated at around 700,000 pesos, which I assume means weight. After looking at it, they sealed the wall up again. But, the Aztecs knew it had been opened and re-sealed.
Wiki says an old peso was 27.468 grams, times 700,000 means 19227600 grams total. divided by 1000 gives 19227 kilograms. A kg weighs 2.2 pounds. So, that would be 42300 pounds. Over 21 tons. Though part of it was described as jewels, that is a lot of loot. a cubic foot of water is 1728 cubic inches, or 7.48 gallons at 231 cubic inches per gallon. So, a cubic foot of water at 8 pounds per gallon would be around 60 pounds, so a cubic foot of gold at sp. gr. 19.25 would be 1150 pounds.
So, 16 tons would be around 32 plus or minus cubic feet. That would be one foot deep in a F-150 pickup bed, though the weight of gold would destroy the pickup and its tires.
During the Noche Triste when they escaped, it has been written elsewhere that the gold fell into the lake.
This book said before they started, it was distributed among soldiers; and horses; and 80 Tlaxcalans (soldiers from Tlaxcala, which is a small state north of Puebla). And, most of the 80 Tlaxcalans and their loads made it out. If each of the 80 only carried 100 pounds, a modest amount for experienced bearers, that would be, um, four tons, total around 20% of the estimated total.
Also, Diaz did not specifically note that the rest fell in the lake. It seemed to be assumed that it did.
I suspect it did not fall in the lake, that the Aztecs grabbed it off the horses and soldier bearers as they killed them.
And, while Cortes was off planning his next invasion would have been a perfect time to send the remaining treasure to my neighborhood, which Moctezuma owned and had protected by guards, no more than 2 days distant. Not hundreds of miles to an unknown place where there would be no reason to expect they could ever retrieve it later.
And, several tons, maybe as much as 16 tons, would indeed take a week to bury.