Have you ever wondered the meaning of some of the names of places in your home, such as: Mexico, Cuautitlan, Tlaxcala, Colima, Teotihuacan, Michoacan, Patzcuaro, Yucatan, Culiacan, Ures, Mapimí,Huazamota, tzintzuntan Tingambato and, among other ?
Do you know why some villages are named after Catholic saints virgin or combined with Indian names such as: sanitago Tianguistengo, peyote sanjuan, santa catarina of Tepehuanes San Bartolo Naucalpan, San francisco de mesquite, Guadalupe Tepeyac, Santa Cruz and Santa Martha ACATITLA Meyehualco ?
All previous words and many others, as aMexican, listen to your surroundings, are the product of historical evolution of your country. Despite the official language Mecico s the Spanish, Mexican way we ablar enriches it has multiple words in theindigenous languages that still speak the indigenous peoples that exist in the country.
Have you ever wondered the meaning of some of the names of places in your home, such as: Mexico, Cuautitlan,Tlaxcala, Colima, Teotihuacan, Michoacan, Patzcuaro, Yucatan, Culiacan, Ures, Mapimí, Huazamota, tzintzuntan Tingambato and, among other ?
Do you know why some villages are named after Catholicsaints virgin or combined with Indian names such as: sanitago Tianguistengo, peyote san juan, santa catarina of Tepehuanes San Bartolo Naucalpan, San francisco de mesquite, Guadalupe Tepeyac, Santa Cruzand Santa
Martha ACATITLA Meyehualco ?
All previous words and many others, as a Mexican, listen to your surroundings, are the product of historical evolution of your country.
Despite theofficial language Mecico s the Spanish, Mexican way we ablar enriches it has multiple words in the indigenous languages
that still speak the indigenous peoples that exist in the country.
There areseveral theories about the origin
of indigenous Mexicans, the most accepted one states that
during the last glaciation of the planet, the tidal level fell,
leaving large swaths of land emerge,…