San Isidro Buensuceso

San Isidro Buenscueso
Town
Coordinates: 19°09′10″N 98°06′25″W / 19.15278°N 98.10694°W / 19.15278; -98.10694Coordinates: 19°09′10″N 98°06′25″W / 19.15278°N 98.10694°W / 19.15278; -98.10694
Country Mexico
State Tlaxcala
Municipality San Pablo del Monte
Named for Saint Isidore the Laborer
Population
  Total 7,688

San Isidro Buensuceso or San Isidro Buen Suceso is a town in the municipality of San Pablo del Monte, Tlaxcala, Mexico, on the southern slope of La Malinche volcano. The town is named after Saint Isidore the Laborer (Spanish: San Isidro Labrador), whose feast day is celebrated on May 15 each year.

The people of San Isidro Buensuceso are indigenous Nahuas; the first language of children is Nahuatl. It is the most remote Nahuatl-speaking town in Tlaxcala.[1]

References

  1. Messing, Jacqueline H. E.; Rockwell, Elsie (2006). "Local language promoters and new discursive spaces: Mexicano in and out of schools in Tlaxcala". In Hidalgo, Margarita (ed.). Mexican Indigenous Languages at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 252, 274. ISBN 978-3-11-018597-3.

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