La Mixteca
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La Mixteca is a cultural, economic and political region in Western Oaxaca and neighboring portions of Puebla and Guerrero in south-central Mexico, which refers to the home of the Mixtec people. In the
The Sierra Mixteca, near Nativitas Monte Verde, in Oaxaca
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The Mixtecs or Mixtecos are Indigenous Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico inhabiting the region known as La Mixteca of Oaxaca and Puebla as well as La Montaña Region and Costa Chica Regions of the state o
La Mixteca
…economic and political region in Western Oaxaca and neighboring portions of Puebla and Guerrero in south-central Mexico, which refers to the home of the Mixtec people. In their languages, the region is called either Ñuu Djau, Ñuu Davi or Ñuu Savi. Two-thirds of all Mixtecs live in the region, and the entire national…
Jarabe Mixteco
Turquoise mosaic mask. Mixtec-Aztec, 1400–1521 AD
Plate 37 of the Codex Vindobonensis. The central scene supposedly depicts the origin of the Mixtecs as a people whose ancestors sprang from a tree.
Mixtec funerary mask; Grave No. 7, Monte Alban; Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca.