Tlalixtac de Cabrera

Tlalixtac de Cabrera
Municipality and town
Iglesia de San Miguel Arcángel
Tlalixtac de Cabrera Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 17°04′N96°39′W / 17.067°N 96.650°W / 17.067; -96.650
Country	Mexico
State	Oaxaca
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central Standard Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)

Tlalixtac de Cabrera is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of km². It is part of the Centro District in the Valles Centrales region. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of . ^[1]

History

Tlalixtac, historically also referred to as Taliztaca or Tlaliztacan, was a prehispanic Zapotec settlement. It was home to an idol of Coquihuani, the god of light, to whom were offered quail and parrot feathers, dogs, blood, and human sacrifices of boys and men, accompanied by music, dancing, and consumption of pulque. Tlalixtac was a subject town of Zaachila, to which it paid tribute of feathers and mantles. It also served alongside its overlord in wars. ^[2]

References

1. "-". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal . Retrieved June 12, 2009.
2. Wauchope, Robert; Wiley, Gordon; Spores, Ronald (1965). Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 2 and 3: Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica. University of Texas Press. pp. 966, 970. ISBN   9781477306550.