page_title: Totonac
section_title: Geography and lifestyle
hierarchical_section_title: Totonac / Geography and lifestyle
caption_attribution_description: Photo taken in Cempoala, State of Veracruz, Mexico. IMPROVED: This is a digitalize picture from and old picture. Picture should be improved when posible. NOTE: Photo nead to be describe. SPANISH: Foto tomada en Cempoala, Estado de Veracruz, México. MEJORA: Esta imagen se ha digitalizado a partir de un negativo viejo, la foto debe ser mejorada cuando sea posible. SPANISH: Foto tomada en Zempoala, Veracruz, México.
context_page_description: The Totonac are an indigenous people of Mexico who reside in the states of Veracruz, Puebla, and Hidalgo. They are one of the possible builders of the pre-Columbian city of El Tajín, and further maintained quarters in Teotihuacán. Until the mid-19th century they were the world's main producers of vanilla.
context_section_description: In the 15th century, the Aztecs labeled the region of the Totonac "Totonacapan"; which then extended roughly from Papantla in the north to Cempoala in the south.  Totonacapan was largely hot and humid.  Along with the normal agricultural crops of maize, manioc, squash, beans, pumpkin and chili peppers, the region was noted for its production of liquid amber and cotton.  Even during the disastrous central Mexican famine of 1450-1454, the region remained a reliable agricultural center.  At that time, many Aztecs were forced to sell themselves or their family members as slaves to the Totonac in exchange for subsistence maize.
caption: View of the main square of the ruins of the city of Cempoala, capital Totonac Nation, the first to establish a military alliance with the Castilian armies to attack the dominions of Aztec Triple Alliance or Ēxcān Tlahtolōyān.
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