Tecali de Herrera is a town and

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in Puebla state, southeastern

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Town

The town of Tecali de Herrera is located about southeast of the city of Puebla. It is center of

onyx Onyx primarily refers to the parallel banded variety of chalcedony, a silicate mineral. Agate and onyx are both varieties of layered chalcedony that differ only in the form of the bands: agate has curved bands and onyx has parallel bands. The ...

artisan objects production in Mexico.Midwesternerinmexico.com: "Tecali de Herrera - Mexico’s hub of all things onyx"
posted 29 March 2010; accessed 11.11.2014 The Municipal Market Onyx is supplied by the local union craftsmen.

History

Pre-Columbian

Tecali was one of the most important cities of the

Toltec The Toltec culture () was a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture that ruled a state centered in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico, during the Epiclassic and the early Post-Classic period of Mesoamerican chronology, reaching prominence from 950 to 1150 CE. T ...

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Chichimeca Chichimeca () is the name that the Nahua peoples of Mexico generically applied to nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples who were established in present-day Bajio region of Mexico. Chichimeca carried the meaning as the Roman term "barbarian" that d ...

nobility, in the

pre-Columbian In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original settlement of North and South America in the Upper Paleolithic period through European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492. Usually, ...

era. It is registered in the "Matricula de Tributos" made during the time of Moctezuma. In the Nahuatl language the name ''Tecali'' derives from''tetl'' (stone) and ''calli'' (house), meaning 'where the houses of stone are.'

Convent of Tecali de Herrera

The ruins of the Spanish colonial era Convent of Tecali of Herrera (''Ex-Convento de Tecali de Herrera'') are a designated Cultural Heritage Monument in the municipality. The former Franciscan

convent A convent is a community of monks, nuns, religious brothers or, sisters or priests. Alternatively, ''convent'' means the building used by the community. The word is particularly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran churches, and the Anglic ...

was completed in 1540, in New Spain (colonial México). It was designed in the Colonial Spanish Renaissance style by Diego de Arciniega.

References

External links

Mid-Westerner in Mexico Blog: Tecali de Herrera
— ''images and text''. Municipalities of Puebla History of Puebla 1545 establishments in New Spain {{Puebla-geo-stub