Tamuín Municipality
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Tamuín is a municipio (second-level administrative division) in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. Tamuín is internationally renowned for three archaeological sites representative of the precolonial Huastec culture.
Key facts
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- Tamuín, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
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- Municipality and town
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- Mexico
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- Country
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- State
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- San Luis Potosí
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- Microregion
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- Huasteca Norte
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- Municipio
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- Tamuín
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- Municipal President
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- Grecia Sánchez
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- Founded
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- 1741
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 2427.5
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- 2005
- Settlement.population_total
- 35,446
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- Demonym
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- Location
- Hydrography
- Climate
- History
- Economy
- Archaeological sites
- Tamtok
- El Consuelo
- Tzintzin-Lujub
- See also
- Notes
- References
==History== La Huasteca was the territory of the Wastek (Huastec) ethnicity, a branch of the Maya group of ethnicities. La Huasteca is detached from and far to the north of the main Maya region. Today, there are about 150,000 speakers of the Wastek language distributed between the states of San Luis Potosí and the neighboring state of Veracruz.
Tamuín was the site of the first royal land lease (merced de tierra) in the portion of Huasteca which within the modern day state of San Luis Potosí. In 1555, the Viceroy ordered the alcalde mayor (magistrate) of Pánuco not to hinder the fisheries of the Huastec tribe in Tamuín and Tampico.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tamuín Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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