Catemaco
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Catemaco is a city in the south of the Mexican state of Veracruz. It serves as the municipal seat for the municipality of the same name. The city is located on Lake Catemaco, with the municipality str
Catemaco seen from the lake
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Breakwater/boardwalk along Lake Catemaco
Grounds where the annual "brujo" reunion is held in Catemaco
Santa Muerte
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Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte, often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a new religious movement, female deity, folk-Catholic saint, and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism and neo-paganism. A perso
Catemaco
…clients, tourism, and who leads the rites at the annual gathering. There has also been controversy related to those who sacrifice animals or petition Santa Muerte or the Devil. In the early pre Hispanic period, the area was dominated by the Olmecs, but the name is derived from Nahuatl, meaning "place of the burned…
Illustration of Santa Muerte
Devotees praying to Santa Muerte in Mexico
Mictēcacihuātl (or Mictlancihuatl), the skeletal Aztec goddess of death
One of José Guadalupe Posada's Catrina engravings (1910–1913)