Chilcuautla (
Otomi
The Otomi (; es, Otomí ) are an indigenous people of Mexico inhabiting the central Mexican Plateau (Altiplano) region.
The Otomi are an indigenous people of Mexico who inhabit a discontinuous territory in central Mexico. They are linguisticall ...
: ʼMiza) is a town and one of the 84
municipalities of Hidalgo
Hidalgo is a state in central Mexico divided into 84 municipalities. According to the 2020 Mexican Census, Hidalgo is the 16th most populous state with inhabitants and the 26th largest by land area spanning .
Municipalities in Hidalgo are admi ...
, in central-eastern
Mexico
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. The municipality covers an area of 231.3 km².
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 15,284. In 2017 there were 6,915 inhabitants who spoke an
indigenous language
An indigenous language, or autochthonous language, is a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous peoples. This language is from a linguistically distinct community that originated in the area. Indigenous languages are not neces ...
, primarily
Mezquital Otomi
Northwestern Otomi is a Native American language of central Mexico.
Varieties
There are two varieties with limited (c. 78%) intelligibility, sometimes considered separate languages:
*Mezquital Otomi (''Otomí del Valle del Mezquital''). The aut ...
.
Culture
The
Hacienda Demiñho
Hacienda Demiñho (also known as Deminyo) is located near Tunititlán in the Chilcuautla municipality in the state of Hidalgo in central Mexico. An extensive former Spanish plantation, it relied on cattle ranching, agriculture production, and prope ...
ruins is on the road that connects
Tezontepec de Aldama
Tezontepec de Aldama is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo
Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo is a Administrative divisions of Mexico#States, state in central Mexico divided into 84 municipalities of Mexico, municipalities. According to the ...
with
Tunititlán
Tunititlán is a town in the municipality of Chilcuautla, in the Mexican state of Hidalgo.
Toponymy
The word Tunititlán comes from Nahuatl, which has several meanings such as “place of prickly pears”; It comes from the Nahuatl words ''"Thuni ...
. It is semi-abandoned and in ruins. Some of the spaces are used to store fodder and as a barn by the people of the region. It has a great aesthetic value that can be seen in the main nave of the chapel and its bell tower with a conical body and a destroyed altar in the front wall.
See also
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2021 Tula River floods
The 2021 Tula River floods were a natural disaster caused by the overflow of the Tula River and several of its tributaries, affecting different municipalities in the Mezquital Valley in Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo, Mexico.
The rising waters began i ...
References
Municipalities of Hidalgo (state)
Populated places in Hidalgo (state)
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