Durango, officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango, is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in the northwest portion of the country. With a population of 1,832,650, the 8th lowest of Mexico's states, Durango has Mexico's second-lowest population density, after Baja California Sur. The capital city, Victoria de Durango, is named after the first President of Mexico, Guadalupe Victoria.
View toward the canyon at the Mexiquillo (es) nature reserve
El Picacho in the Valleys region of the state
Mexicaneros during Candlemas celebrations in San Pedro Jícaras
Small Tepehuan carrying bag in traditional design
Nahuatl, Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about 1.7 million Nahua peoples, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller populations in the United States.
The Aztecs called (red) tomatoes xitōmatl, whereas the green tomatillo was called tōmatl; the latter is the source for the English word tomato.
Page of Book IV from the Florentine Codex. The text is in Nahuatl written in the Latin alphabet.
Text about the language by Fray Joseph de Carranza, second half of the 18th century (click to read)
