Tepehuas


The Tepehuas are an indigenous people of Mexico whose name means in Nahuatl, "people of the mountain", although they refer to themselves without a term or name that encompasses a supposed ethnic group. They also use :wikt:endoethnonym|endoethnonyms that originate in Spanish-influenced Nahuatl:
They mainly live in the three Mexican states of Hidalgo, Veracruz and Puebla. 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:
The Tepehuas are made up of two distinct ethnolinguistic groups:
  1. Tepehua del occidental, in Tlachichilco, Zontecomatlán and, to a lesser extent, Texcatepec.
  2. Tepehua suroriental, dispersed in Hidalgo, Puebla and Veracruz. In turn, the southeastern Tepehua ethnic group is subdivided into three:
  3. # Tepehua meridional : in the municipality of Huehuetla.
  4. # Tepehua oriental : for centuries in the municipality of Ixhuatlán de Madero and later, during the second half of the 20th century, they moved to settle in Francisco Z. Mena and Pánuco
  5. # Tepehua poblano : at the beginning of the 20th century this group came from Huehuetla to settle in Totonac communities of the Puebla municipalities of Francisco Z. Mena, Venustiano Carranza and mostly Pantepec.