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Mexico City has a long tradition of making objects from a hard kind of paper mache called cartonería, generally for the various festival and celebrations of the year. [8] It is a major industry, with various families and individuals noted for this work, [ 1 ] including the Linares family and Susana Buyo, nicknamed “Señora de los Monstruos ...
San Pedro Taviche is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of km 2. It is part of the Ocotlán District in the south of the Valles Centrales Region. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of . [1]
In the 1940s the Mexico City/Laredo highway was built through the area, which gave the valley more connection with the outside world. [ 15 ] In 1951, by presidential decree, the Patrimonio Indígena del Valle de Mezquital (Valley of Mezquital Indigenous Heritage) was created in Ixmiquilpan by President Miguel Alemán Valez and state governor D ...
The Battle of El Maguey was a battle of the War of Mexican Independence that occurred on 2 May 1811 at El Maguey, in the State of Aguascalientes.The battle was fought between the royalist forces loyal to the Spanish crown, commanded by General Miguel Emparan, and the Mexican rebels fighting for independence from the Spanish Empire, commanded by Ignacio López Rayón.
Maguey is a flowering plant of the genus Agave, native to parts of southwestern modern United States and Mexico. The depictions of Mayahuel in the Codex Borgia and the Codex Borbonicus show the deity perched upon a maguey plant. The deity's positioning in both illustrations, as well as the same blue pigment used to depict her body and the body ...
Brandes, Stanley. "Maguey". Encyclopedia of Mexico. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997, pp. 767–769. Gonçalves de Lima, Oswaldo. El maguey y el pulque en los códices mexicanos. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica 1956. Payno, Manuel. Memoria sobre el maguey mexicano y sus diversos productos. Mexico City: Boix 1864.
San Pedro Garza García (also known as San Pedro) is a city-municipality in the Mexican state of Nuevo León and part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area.It is a contemporary commercial suburb of the larger metropolitan city of Monterrey between Puente de la Unidad and the Alfa Planetarium, including areas surrounding Calzada del Valle/Calzada San Pedro.
The endonym of the Amuzgo peoples varies by community. In San Pedro Amuzgos it is Tzjon Noan (meaning "people of the textiles or thread"), [3] in Santa María Ipalapa it is Tzo'tyio, [2] and in Suljaa' it is Nn'a n ncue (meaning "the people"). [4] [5] The Mixtecs call them Ñuuñama, which means "people of totomoxtle (dried corn leaves)." [2]