Tehuantepec

Tehuantepec is a town and municipality inside the southeast of the Mexican nation of Oaxaca. It is part of the Tehuantepec District in the west of the Istmo Region. The place became vital in pre Hispanic duration as part of a exchange course that connected Central America with what's now the middle of Mexico. Later it became a secondary capital of the Zapotec dominion, before it became conquered by the Spanish inside the early 16th century. The metropolis remains the middle of Zapotec culture in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and is the second one largest within the area.

The metropolis is known for its ladies and their traditional dress, which changed into followed via Frida Kahlo. Tehuantepec has a recognition for being a "matriarchal society." Women do dominate the neighborhood markets and are recognised to taunt guys. However, political power continues to be the area of guys. The town experienced a brief monetary increase in the early twentieth century associated with a rail line that turned into built linking the two oceans, but it changed into soon eclipsed via the Panama Canal. There were plans to resurrect the line linking the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean however financing has been a trouble.