Marina or Malintzin, more popularly known as La Malinche, was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who became known for contributing to the Spanish invasion of the Aztec Empire, by acting as an
Malintzin, in an engraving dated 1886.
Codex Azcatitlan, Hernán Cortés and Malinche (far right), early 16th-century indigenous pictorial manuscript of the conquest of Mexico
La Malinche and Hernán Cortés in the city of Xaltelolco, in a drawing from the late 16th-century codex History of Tlaxcala
The meeting of Cortés and Moctezuma II, with Malinche acting as interpreter.
The Nahuas are a Uto-Nahuan ethnic group and one of the Indigenous people of Mexico, with Nahua minorities also in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. They comprise the larges
La Malinche
…Marina () or Malintzin (; c. 1500 – c. 1529), more popularly known as La Malinche (), was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who became known for contributing to the Spanish invasion of the Aztec Empire (1519–1521), by acting as an interpreter…
Nahua girls wearing traditional clothing in Puebla
Nahua man of Morelos ploughing a bean field by mule
Ceramic sculpture of Nahua deity from Puebla
"Atlantean figures" from the Nahua culture of the Toltecs at Tula