Huejotzingo
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Huejotzingo is a small city and municipality located just northwest of the city of Puebla, in central Mexico. In 2023, Huejotzingo was designated a Pueblo Mágico by the Mexican government, recognizing
Facade of the monastery of San Miguel Arcángel
View of the chapel in the northwest corner of the atrium
Mural depicting the first twelve Franciscans in Mexico
Early parade of "zapadores" at the 2011 carnival
Altepetl
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The altepetl was the local, ethnically-based political entity, usually translated into English as "city-state", of pre-Columbian Nahuatl-speaking societies in the Americas. The altepetl was composed o
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…first by groups of Olmeca-Xicallancas and later by Toltecs and Chichimecas. At first a group of villages, Huejotzingo later coalesced into a dominion or altepetl. According to Ixtlilxochitl, the rulers of Huejotzingo were descended from the Acolhua dynasty of Coatlinchan, and they were considered Chichimec…
Glyphs representing Texcoco, Tenochtitlan, and Tlacopan, the three primary altepetl of the Aztec Empire.
An illustration of the destruction of Indigenous codices by Franciscan friars by Diego Muñoz Camargo (1585)
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