This article deals with the cultural activities linked to subsistence in aquatic environments (fishing, hunting, gathering, and manufacture) in Michoacán from ca. a.d. 1540 to the present. First, I present an ethnohistorical account of aquatic landscapes and resources based on the major written sources from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Second, I discuss the extant ethnographic information about subsistence activities in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin (Michoacán) during the twentieth century. Finally, I discuss the archaeological implications of all the information presented here, through an ethnoarchaeological analysis of the subsistence strategies and the material culture associated with the aquatic lifeway in the study area. The main goal of this study is to provide bridging arguments for the reconstruction and interpretation (through analogy) of the archaeological assemblages associated with production and consumption activities in aquatic landscapes within the Tarascan region and elsewhere in Mesoamerica.

本文讨论了与水生环境（捕鱼、狩猎、采集和制造）相关的文化活动，这些活动在米却肯州来自 ca。广告1540年至今。首先，我根据 16 至 19 世纪的主要书面资料，对水生景观和资源进行民族历史描述。其次，我讨论了关于 20 世纪帕茨夸罗湖盆地（米却肯）的生存活动的现存民族志信息。最后，我通过对研究区域内与水生生活方式相关的生存策略和物质文化的民族考古学分析，讨论了这里提供的所有信息的考古意义。