Huastec people

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The Huastec or Téenek (contraction of Te' Inik, "people from here"; also known as Huaxtec, Wastek or Huastecos) are an indigenous people of Mexico living in the Huasteca, which includes the administrative divisions of Hidalgo, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas concentrated along the route of the Pánuco River and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. There are approximately 66,000 Huastec speakers today, of which two-thirds are in San Luis Potosí and one-third in Veracruz, although their population was probably much higher, as much as half a million, when the Spanish arrived in 1529. The Huastec civilization was one of the Mesoamerican cultures of the Pre-Columbian era. Based on archaeological remains, they are thought to date to approximately the 10th century BCE. However, their most productive period of civilization is usually considered to be the Postclassic era, between the fall of Teotihuacan and the rise of the Aztec Empire. Pre-Columbian Huastecs constructed temples on step...

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