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About Santa Maria del Tule

Santa Maria del Tule is a metropolis and a municipality within the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is part of the Centro District inside the Valles Centrales place. It is located eleven kilometers SE of the town of Oaxaca on Highway one hundred ninety. The town and municipality are named for the purchaser saint of the region, the Virgin Mary and “Tule” comes from the Nahuatl phrase “tulle” or “tullin” because of this bulrush. The town's to reputation is as the home of a 2,000-yr-antique Montezuma cypress tree, known as the El Arbol del Tule, that's one of the oldest, biggest and widest bushes inside the global. Its gnarled trunk and branches are full of shapes which have been given names which include “the elephant,” “the pineapple” and even one called “Carlos Salinas’ ears.”

The municipality of Santa Maria del Tule used to be a lake surrounded by way of marshes which blanketed cypress bushes. This marsh was additionally full of bulrushes which bills for a part of the town's name. The populace of Tule had made their residing considering pre-Hispanic times extracting and processing lime on the market within the city of Oaxaca. In 1926, a good deal of the municipality become made ejido land, and lots of the populace have become farmers, developing corn, beans, chickpeas and alfalfa, ordinarily during the rainy season within the summer season.

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