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The Totonac are an indigenous people of Mexico who reside in the states of Veracruz, Puebla, and Hidalgo. They are one of the possible builders of the pre-Columbian city of El Tajín , and further maintained quarters in Teotihuacán (a city which they claim to have built).
The Totonac culture or Totonec culture was a culture that existed among the indigenous Mesoamerican Totonac people who lived mainly in Veracruz and northern Puebla. Originally, they formed a confederation of cities, but, in later times, it seems that they were organized in three dominions: North, South and Serran. [ 1 ]
The Totonac population in Cempoala is estimated to have been about 80,000 when the Spanish arrived in 1519 but with only eighty left in 1550. [2] The Spanish also took their lands for cattle raising until the ethnicity occupied only about half of what it used to. In many areas, the Totonac population was replaced by Spanish, mestizo and African ...
El Tajín, named after the Totonac rain god, [3] was named a World Heritage site in 1992, due to its cultural importance and its architecture. [4] This architecture includes the use of decorative niches and cement in forms unknown in the rest of Mesoamerica. [ 5 ]
Aktzin(Totonacan: Ā'ktzini, "He who makes Thunder") [1] was the god of rain, thunder and lightning for the Totonac people of Mexico. Aktzin corresponds with Tláloc to the Aztecs and Chaac or Cabrakán to the Mayas, [2] and is most commonly syncretised with Saint John the Baptist. [1]
Cempoala was a prosperous city, in which the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico and established alliances with some groups to go towards the capture of Tenochtitlan. The city of Cempoala then numbered approximately 20,000 inhabitants was the most important ceremonial and commercial center of the Aztec empire, more so than Tlatelolco.
This category is for archaeological sites of the pre-Columbian Totonac civilization of Mesoamerica. Pages in category "Totonac sites" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Totonac is a Totonacan language cluster of Mexico, spoken across a number of central Mexican states by the Totonac people. It is a Mesoamerican language and shows many of the traits which define the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area. Along with some 62 other indigenous languages, it is recognised as an official language of Mexico, though as a single ...