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Mesoamérica
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This vestibule sets out to present the readers the Wikipedia in Spanish the characteristics Mesoamérica. This region aproimadamente includes half from Mexico to the south of the Tropic of Cancer, plus the territories of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, the west of Honduras and Nicaragua and the zone the northwest of Costa Rica.
During the pre-Hispanic time, the towns that coexisted in this region even developed certain cultural characteristics that they reached considerable a geographic extension, outside the dynamic limits of the mesoamericana cultural area. Some of these characteristics are the practice of the ball game, the human sacrifice, the use of two calendars - one ritual of 260 days and another civilian of 365 - and, of course, the cultivation of the maize, that was base of the subsistence and the mesoamericana civilization.
The development of the mesoamericana civilization was truncated by Spanish Conquista as of century XVI. Nevertheless, numerous descending indigenous people of the bearers of the high mesoamericanas cultures have resisted and to the present time continue living. It is necessary to say that indigenous people of the modern Mesoamérica usually constitute one significant part of the harmed sectors more of the nations where they live. It reads more on Mesoamérica |
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Albán mount is an archaeological site located to 10 km of the city of Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexican State Capital of the same name. Albán mount was for a long time soothes of the dominant power in the region of Central Valleys of Oaxaca, from the declivity of San jOse Wooded hill to the decline of the city, happened around century IX. The old name of this city founded by the zapotecos at the end of Delayed Preclásico is object of discussions. In agreement with some sources, the original name was Dani Baá. One knows, however, that the mixtecos knew the city like Yucucúi (language mixteco: Yúcu-cúi, “Green hill”). It reads more on Albán Mount |
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Mesoamericanos towns |
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The culture huasteca is one that was developed in a vast region of well-known Mexico like the Huasteca, shared by the present states of Veracruz, Potosí San Luis, Noble, Tamaulipas, Querétaro and Puebla. They spoke to a tongue of origin mayense, from which huasteco descends the present language. The name huasteco derives from the word náhuatl cuextécatl, that has two possible meanings: of cuechtic or cuechtli “small snail or caracolillo” or guaxin “guaje”, that is small a legume. The town huasteco did not disappear with Spanish Conquista; their descendants continue living in the region who historically inhabited their ancestors. It reads more on the culture huasteca |
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Oasisamérica and Aridoamérica |
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The National Park Green Table is a national park of the Member States of America, declared Heritage site by UNESCO in 1978. It is located in the county of Montezuma, in the southwest of Colorado. The park occupies 211 kilometers square and contains numerous ruins of rooms and villages constructed by the town anasazi. They emphasize the constructions realized in caves and under projections of cliffs; among them Cliff Palace.Estos colonized with stone, great and constructed well, is the result of one long occupation during which they went adding rooms and warehouses of apparently random way. It reads more on the National Park Green Table |
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