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Chilcuautla
Chilcuautla (Otomi: ʼMiza) is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. 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, primarily Mezquital Otomi. Culture The Hacienda Demiñho ruins is on the road that connects Tezontepec de Aldama Tezontepec de Aldama is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to ... with Tunititlán. 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 * 2021 Tula Rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, Mexico. The rising waters began in late August and early September; the first major floods occurred on September 6, mainly affecting the municipality of Tepeji del Río de Ocampo. In the early morning hours of September 7, the flooding of the river affected the city of Tula de Allende, and in the afternoon of that day it affected Ixmiquilpan. The next day, it affected the municipality of Tlahuelilpan, and then caused the water levels of the Zimapán Dam and the Moctezuma River to rise. River floods and overflows continued intermittently until early October. The National Coordination of Civil Protection issued the Declaration of Emergency in the municipalities of Tlaxcoapan, Tula de Allende, Ixmiquilpan, Tezontepec de Aldama, Chilcuautla, Tasquillo, Tlahuelilpan, Tepeji del Río de Ocamp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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"'', which means prickly pears and ''"Titlán"'' which means Place, hence the name place where there are prickly pears. This name was given to the community with the arrival of the Spanish and the demolition of the human settlements that would exist at that time, which was a Toltec tribe, since the original name was Santiago Tenextepango. The name was changed in approximately 1579. Geography It is located in the region of Mezquital Valley, the locality corresponds to the geographical coordinates of Latitude north and of length west, with an altitude of 2016 MSL It is located at an approximate distance of 10.14 kilometers southwest of the municipal capital, Chilcuautla. As for physiography it is located within the province of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hacienda Demiñho
Hacienda Demiñho (also known as Deminyo) is located near Tunititlán in the Chilcuautla municipality in the state of Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo in central Mexico. An extensive former Spanish plantation, it relied on cattle ranching, agriculture production, and property rental to become one of the most important haciendas in the Mezquital Valley region. Following its destruction during the Mexican Revolution, it is no longer in use. Today, farmers use the manor's abandoned ruins to store their agricultural items and local municipal authorities use it as a makeshift site for cultural events. Toponymy The name ''Demiñho'' is a term in Otomi language. ''Demiñho'' means "of the Coyote" or "pass of the Coyote". It comes from the word ''min'yō'' which means coyote. It refers to the mountain which is the main geographical feature of the site. Another translation of ''Demiñho'' is "In the middle of spiny small reeds", derived from the Otomi words ''nde'' (center or half), '''mini'' (spine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
