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The Zapotec civilization (Be'ena'a "The People"; c. 700 BC–1521 AD) is an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica. Archaeological evidence shows that their culture originated at least 2,500 years ago.
Benito Juarez: Born in Oaxaca to Zapotec parents, Benito Juarez was a liberal politician and leader of La Reforma (The Reform) in Mexico. He was the first president of Mexico of Indigenous origin. Andrés Henestrosa: Zapotec scholar of Zapotec language and culture, [14] later a politician. [15]
This category is for archaeological sites associated with the pre-Columbian Zapotec civilization of Mesoamerica. Pages in category "Zapotec sites" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The Zapotec referred to themselves by some variant of the term Be'ena'a, which means "The People." The Zapotec civilization was a native prehispanic civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca of southern Mesoamerica. Archaeological evidence shows their culture goes back at least 2500 years.
The present-day population is estimated at approximately 300,000 to 400,000 persons, many of whom are monolingual in one of the native Zapotec languages. In pre-Columbian times the Zapotec civilization was one of the highly developed cultures of Mesoamerica, which among other things included a system of writing. [citation needed]
Mitla is the second-most important archeological site in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico, and the most important of the Zapotec culture. [1] [2] The site is located 44 km from the city of Oaxaca, [3] in the upper end of the Tlacolula Valley, one of the three cold, high valleys that form the Central Valleys Region of the state. [4]
San José Mogote is a pre-Columbian archaeological site of the Zapotec, a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in the region of what is now the Mexican state of Oaxaca. A forerunner to the better-known Zapotec site of Monte Albán , San José Mogote was the largest and most important settlement in the Valley of Oaxaca during the Early and ...
Zapotec peoples, contemporary indigenous peoples of Mexico Zapotecan languages , a group of related Oto-Manguean languages (including Zapotec languages), of central Mesoamerica Zapotec language (Jalisco) , an extinct language from Jalisco state in Mexico, unrelated (despite its name) to the group of Zapotec languages.