Guevea de Humboldt

Guevea de Humboldt is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. It in the north of the Tehuantepec District, which is in the west of the Istmo Region. The name Guevea comes from the variant of the Zapotec language of the local people, and means "flower of muddy water or lily of the river". A painting on cotton cloth from 1540 depicts the town and its neighbor Santo Domingo Petapa. The picture records the history of the people from the time of their migration from Zaachila up to the Spanish conquest, and was designed to establish ancient property rights. The painting records that the town's first Spanish ruler was one Pedro Santiago. The town was called Guevea Santiago until 1936, when the state government changed the...