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Santa Maria del Tule

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About Santa Maria del Tule

Santa Maria del Tule is a metropolis and a municipality within the Mexican nation of Oaxaca. It is a part of the Centro District within the Valles Centrales location. It is positioned 11 kilometers SE of the city of Oaxaca on Highway 190. The town and municipality are named for the customer saint of the region, the Virgin Mary and “Tule” comes from the Nahuatl word “tulle” or “tullin” because of this bulrush. The metropolis's to reputation is as the house of a 2,000-12 months-vintage Montezuma cypress tree, known as the El Arbol del Tule, which is one of the oldest, biggest and widest bushes in the international.

Its gnarled trunk and branches are full of shapes that have been given names along with “the elephant,” “the pineapple” or even one called “Carlos Salinas’ ears. The municipality of Santa Maria del Tule used to be a lake surrounded with the aid of marshes which covered cypress bushes. This marsh turned into additionally full of bulrushes which bills for part of the city's name. The populace of Tule had made their dwelling for the reason that pre-Hispanic times extracting and processing lime for sale within the metropolis of Oaxaca.

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