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Also known as Tepehua, Tepehua people

The Tepehuas are an Indigenous people of Mexico who are based in Hidalgo, Veracruz, and Puebla. They speak Tepehua languages, which belong to the Totonacan language family.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Tepehuas is referenced by 141 other articles, and connects out to indigenous peoples of Mexico, Matlatzinca and Mexico.

Vinony files it under Indigenous peoples of Mexico and Mesoamerican cultures.

Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.

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Ethnic group.group
Tepehuas
Ethnic group.image
Tepehua location map.svg
Ethnic group.caption
Tepehua location map
Ethnic group.population
16,051
Ethnic group.popplace
Mexico (Hidalgo, Veracruz, Puebla)
Ethnic group.religions
Indigenous religion, Christianity
Ethnic group.languages
Tepehua languages, Spanish

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The Tepehuas are an Indigenous people of Mexico who are based in Hidalgo, Veracruz, and Puebla. They speak Tepehua languages, which belong to the Totonacan language family.

== Name == Their name in Nahuatl translated to "people of the mountain". They also use endoethnonyms that originate in Spanish-influenced Nahuatl: masipijní: the Tepehua people hamasipiní: who lives on a hill hamasip: owners of hills

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tepehuas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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