Oaxtepec

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Oaxtepec is a small town in the district of Yautepec in the northern part of the Mexican state of Morelos with 6197 inhabitants ( 2005).

The origin of the name

Its name comes from the Nahuatl and consists of two root words: huax and Tepec. Huaxin describes an entity belonging to the species of acacia tree, which is known as guaje in Mexico and bears the Latin name Leucaena esculenta. Tepetl means a hill or mountain. Oaxtepec or Huaxtepec how the town was originally called, thus means Guaje Mountain or Mount of Guaje trees.

History

The former Huaxtepec was before the arrival of the Spanish invaders in 1521 an important settlement. In this region belongs to the family of the tribe of Aztecs Tlahuica whose largest cities Cuauhnahuac (today Cuernavaca ) and Huaxtepec were alive.

In Huaxtepec the Tlahuica cultivated even at that time the cultivation of cocoa and vanilla plants. Their splendor impressed the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés so much that this was his King Charles V to know the gardens of Moctezuma in Huaxtepec are the most beautiful he had ever seen.

Football

Between 1982 and 1984 the city by the CF Oaxtepec the highest league in the Mexican association football was División two seasons in the Primera, represented.