The Tepehuas are an
indigenous people of Mexico
Indigenous peoples of Mexico ( es, gente indÃgena de México, pueblos indÃgenas de México), Native Mexicans ( es, nativos mexicanos) or Mexican Native Americans ( es, pueblos originarios de México, lit=Original peoples of Mexico), are those ...
whose name means in
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 ...
, "people of the mountain", although they refer to themselves without a term or name that encompasses a supposed ethnic group. They also use
endoethnonyms that originate in Spanish-influenced Nahuatl:
* ''masipijnÃ'': the Tepehua people
* ''hamasipinÃ'': who lives on a hill
* ''hamasip'': owners of hills
They mainly live in the three Mexican states of
Hidalgo
Hidalgo may refer to:
People
* Hidalgo (nobility), members of the Spanish nobility
* Hidalgo (surname)
Places
Mexico
* Hidalgo (state), in central Mexico
* Hidalgo, Coahuila, a town in the north Mexican state of Coahuila
* Hidalgo, Nuevo Leà ...
,
Veracruz
Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...
and
Puebla
Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...
.
The Tepehuas extend over a wide range of high settlements, between .
Location
The Tepehua territory covers a narrow area and other eastern slopes of Sierra Madre Oriental. There are essentially three Tepehua regions:
* Huehuetla,
Hidalgo
Hidalgo may refer to:
People
* Hidalgo (nobility), members of the Spanish nobility
* Hidalgo (surname)
Places
Mexico
* Hidalgo (state), in central Mexico
* Hidalgo, Coahuila, a town in the north Mexican state of Coahuila
* Hidalgo, Nuevo Leà ...
* Tlachichilco,
Veracruz
Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...
* Pisaflores, Veracruz
The Tepehuas are made up of two distinct ethnolinguistic groups:
# Tepehua del occidental (western), in
Tlachichilco
Tlachichilco is a small town in Veracruz, Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and w ...
,
Zontecomatlán and, to a lesser extent,
Texcatepec
Texcatepec is a municipality located in the north zone in the State of Veracruz, about 190 km from state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 153.61 km2. It is located at . In 1930 the municipal head-board was established in the village of Am ...
.
# Tepehua suroriental (southeastern), dispersed in Hidalgo, Puebla and Veracruz. In turn, the southeastern Tepehua ethnic group is subdivided into three:
## Tepehua meridional (southern): in the municipality of
Huehuetla.
## Tepehua oriental (eastern): for centuries in the municipality of
Ixhuatlán de Madero
Ixhuatlán de Madero is a Municipality in Veracruz, Mexico. It is located in north zone of the State of Veracruz, about 376 km from state capital Xalapa, in the region called Huasteca Baja. It is one of 212 municipalities in Veracruz. It has ...
and later, during the second half of the 20th century, they moved to settle in
Francisco Z. Mena
Francisco Z. Mena Municipality is a Municipalities of Puebla, municipality in the List of Mexican states, Mexican state of Puebla in south-eastern Mexico.
The municipality is named after General Francisco ZacarÃas Mena (1841-1910).
References (Puebla) and
Pánuco (Veracruz)
## Tepehua poblano (Puebla): at the beginning of the 20th century this group came from Huehuetla (Hidalgo) to settle in Totonac communities of the Puebla municipalities of Francisco Z. Mena,
Venustiano Carranza
José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza (; 29 December 1859 – 21 May 1920) was a Mexican wealthy land owner and politician who was Governor of Coahuila when the constitutionally elected president Francisco I. Madero was overthrown in a February ...
and mostly
Pantepec.
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