Looking into the History of the State of Querétaro is like looking at a kaleidoscope: You can hear high heels that awaken the independence struggle or see stone balls jump; Names such as Querenda or Andamaxei and denominations such as "very noble and very loyal" are intertwined; Dominant Purépecha lords, Pames and Jonaces who follow their path; the last moments of an empire and the first moments of the Republic; center of the 'Ruta de la Plata', three times capital of the Nation, the third city of the Kingdom, and the destiny of a conquest drawn in the sky.
Looking into the History of the State of Querétaro is like looking at a kaleidoscope: You can hear high heels that awaken the independence struggle or see stone balls jump; Names such as Querenda or Andamaxei and denominations such as "very noble and very loyal" are intertwined; Dominant Purépecha lords, Pames and Jonaces who follow their path; the last moments of an empire and the first moments of the Republic; center of the 'Ruta de la Plata', three times capital of the Nation, the third city of the Kingdom, and the destiny of a conquest drawn in the sky. Going back to the pre-Hispanic years, we find in Querétaro settlers busy in mining, who left us as a mark of their passage the constructions in Ranas and Toluquilla. The Chichimeca nomadic tribes would later also occupy those spaces,
In one of the versions, the name of this entity is attributed to them: K'erhiretarhu (K'eri means "great", ireta, town, and rhu, place) or K'erendarhu, (k'erenda, rock and rhu, place).