Corazón salvaje (English: Wild Heart)[1] is a Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejía Alejandre for Televisa in 2009.

In the year 1851 near the port city of Veracruz, María del Rosario (Laura Flores) falls in love with Juan de Dios San Román (Osvaldo Ríos), a humble fisherman, unaware that another man, Rodrigo Montes de Oca (Enrique Rocha), is in love with her.

While visiting him in prison, María del Rosario confesses to Juan de Dios that she is expecting their child.

Juan de Dios flees the estate as María del Rosario has begged; he swears he will return for her and their child.

Leonarda decides to deceive Rodrigo and pass her sister off as dead while locking María del Rosario away in the estate’s basement dungeon.

He adopts the boy as his brother and takes the child to be raised by Aurora who baptizes him as Juan de Dios, as requested by a note left with the baby.

Time passes, in 1880, the now adult Juan decides to return to Mexico to fulfill a deathbed oath he made to his father to seek revenge against Rodrigo Montes de Oca.