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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 ]
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 ]
Possible candidates are the Nahua, Otomi, or Totonac ethnic groups. Scholars have also suggested that Teotihuacan was a multi-ethnic state. The site covers a total surface area of 83 square kilometres and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. It is the most visited archaeological site in Mexico.
El Zapotal is a Totonac archaeological site located in the Ignacio de la Llave Municipality in Veracruz, Mexico. [1] It contains the ruins of a Totonac city that flourished from 600 to 900 CE, during what archaeologists call the Classical Period .
"The Totonac Civilization," a mural by Diego Rivera in the National Palace celebrates Mexico's Indigenous history. The Mexican Revolution, a violent social and cultural movement that defined 20th-century Mexico, produced a nationalist sentiment that the indigenous peoples were the foundation of Mexican society in a movement known as indigenismo ...
Rock art found in southeastern Venezuela may have come from a previously unknown culture. Researchers believe that the roughly 4,000-year-old art signifies a central dispersion point from which ...
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.