World Heritage Site are fourteen 16th-century monasteries which were built by the Augustinians, the Franciscans and the atrium in front of a single nave church with an capilla abierta or open chapel.
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The chapels represent one of the first steps of the cultural integration after the construction of a palace over an old tribute collection center and nearby the construction of a church with an open chapel.
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On the side of the main portal there are three arches of the open chapel, which symbolize the three peoples of the area ( indigenous, Spanish and mestizo ) and was the area where baptisms occurred.
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Her diverse work includes the Botanical Garden in Culiac�n, a master plan and open chapel for a Pilgrimage Route in Jalisco, a Biotechnological Center for a Tech Institution, a sustainable housing prototype that is built with 8, 000 USD, and a funeral home.
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Most of the monasteries have a large atrium in front of the church, an open chapel, four chapels in each corner of the atrium, and atrium cross, Stations of the cross on the atrium walls, a roofed church, and the cloister area for the monks.
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The construction of the building was carried out at different stages; the parish was a large atrium space with a cross in the center of carved stone, with indigenous and Christian symbols in the four corner chapels in the pits and an open chapel with beautiful columns on the facade and two extraordinary stone-carved jambs by Indian hands who left part of his philosophy embodied in them.
