Santo Tomás de los Plátanos

Santo Tomás de los Platanos is a town and governmental seat of the municipality of Santo Tomás, located in the center-west of Mexico State, in Mexico. It is approximately 185 km from Mexico City, and 107 km from Toluca.. The Náhuatl name for the area was Caltepec, but as early as 1631, records referred to the village here as Santo Tomás, which the municipality is still called. Don Vasco de Quiroga added "de los Plátanos" to the name of the village because of all the banana plantations nearby, but the name was not official until 1975. Few records exist from the colonia period, but the area was under the jurisdiction of San Martín Otzoloapan in the 19th century. The current town of Santo Tomás de los Platanos (Saint Thomas of the bananas)...