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Axtla de Terrazas is one of the 58 municipalities in
Axtla de Terrazas is one of the 58 municipalities in San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of San Luis Potosí ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de San Luis Potosí), is one of the 32 states which compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 58 municipalities and i ...
in central Mexico
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. The municipality was founded 1826, its name comes from Nahuatl
Nahuatl (; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahua peoples, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller ...
(astlan) and is interpreted as: "Place of white herons", it was added de Terrazas in honor of the revolutionary Alfredo M. Terrazas.
Politics
Gregorio Cruz Martinez is the Constitutional Municipality President as of 2021 with his term lasting until 2024Demographics
According to the II Population and Housing Count of 2005, the municipality has 32,721 inhabitants, of which 16,298 are men and 16,423 are women. 75% of the population is indigenous or at least of indigenous descent,65% of the population is catholicCastle of Health
The Castle Of Health (Spanish: Castillo De La Salud) is an medicinal castle built in 1974 by Beto Ramon, a Huasteca Indian man who learned traditional/herbal medicine, the castle has symbolic meaning, with parts of the castle referencing passages from the bible. The castle is still in use by people who usetraditional
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and herbal
A herbal is a book containing the names and descriptions of plants, usually with information on their medicinal, tonic, culinary, toxic, hallucinatory, aromatic, or magical powers, and the legends associated with them.Arber, p. 14. A herbal m ...
medicine.
References
Municipalities of San Luis Potosí {{SanLuisPotosí-geo-stub