Castillo de Teayo is a small town in the

Mexican state The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a separate ent ...

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 ...

. Located in the state's

Huasteca Baja Huasteca Baja Region is one of the regions of Veracruz, Mexico. References Regions of Veracruz {{coord missing, Veracruz ...

region, it serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. In the 2005 INEGI Census, Castillo de Teayo reported a total population of 4,159.

Name

"Teayo" comes from the Nahuatl ''te-ayo-k'', which means "tortoise atop stone". This is a reference to the main pyramid of the nearby archaeological site known as the

Castle of Teayo Castillo de Teayo is a mesoamerican Prehispanic archeological site and Mesoamerican pyramid, located in the La Huasteca region in northern Veracruz, Mexico. The main access to the site is via Federal Highway 130 México-Tuxpan up to the city of T ...

, a syncretic blend 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. Th ...

, Mexica, and Huastec cultures

References

Populated places in Veracruz {{Veracruz-geo-stub