Ometepec | |
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Municipal seat and city | |
Ometepec Location in Mexico Show map of GuerreroOmetepec Ometepec (Mexico) Show map of Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 16°41′N 98°25′W / 16.683°N 98.417°W / 16.683; -98.417 | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State | Guerrero |
| Municipality | Ometepec |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Zona Centro) |
Ometepec (Mixtec: Yucuvui, 'Two Hills'1) is a city and the seat of the municipality of Ometepec, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.2
History
Ometepec was the capital of a strategic province of the Aztec Empire, which also included towns like Azoyú, San Luis Acatlán, Igualapa and Xochistlahuaca. Resources of the region included cotton, gold and cacao.3 Ometepec and Igualapa spoke Amuzgo in addition to their own language called Ayacastec, which has since gone extinct without being documented.4
References
References
- Whittaker, Gordon (1 January 1993). "The Study of North Mesoamerican Place-Signs". INDIANA - Estudios Antropológicos sobre América Latina y el Caribe. 13: 34. doi:10.18441/ind.v13i0.9-38.
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER). Retrieved on December 23, 2008
- Berdan, Frances (1996). Aztec imperial strategies. Washington, D.C: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. p. 278. ISBN 9780884022114.
- Wauchope, Robert; Cline, Howard (1972). Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 12: Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part One. University of Texas Press. p. 310. ISBN 9781477306802.