Santa María del Tule

Santa María del Tule Tule
Toun & Municipality
Santa Maria del Tule's toun haw
Santa María del Tule Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 17°02′50″N 96°38′00″W / 17.04722°N 96.63333°W / 17.04722; -96.63333
Kintra	Mexico
State	Oaxaca
Govrenment
• Municipal Preses	Pedro Cortes Raymundo 2008-2010
Area
• Municipality	25.2 km^2 (9.7 sq mi)
Elevation o seat	1565 m (5,135 ft)
Population  (2005)Municipality
• Municipality	8,259
• Seat	7831
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)

Santa María del Tule is a toun an a municipality in the Mexican state o Oaxaca. It is pairt o the Centro Destrict in the Valles Centrales region. It is locatit 11 kilometer (6.8 mi) SE o the ceety o Oaxaca on Heich-gate 190, passin the ceety an ruins o Mitla.^[1] The toun an municipality are namit for the patron saunt o the place, the Virgin Mary an “Tule” comes frae the Náhuatl wird “tulle” or “tullin” which means bulrush.^[2]

The toun’s claim tae fame is as the hame o a 2,000 year auld Montezuma cypress tree, kent as the El Árbol del Tule, which is ane o the auldest, lairgest an widest trees in the warld. Its gnarled trunk an branches are filled wi shapes that hae been gien names such as “the elephant,” “the pineapple” an even ane cried “Carlos Salinas’ ears.”^[2][3][4]

References

1. Quintanar Hinojosa, Beatriz (2007). "Sta. María del Tule y Mitla". Guía México Desconocido: Oaxaca. 137: 28–29. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
2. "Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México Estado de Oaxaca Santa María de Tule". Retrieved 22 Februar 2008.
3. Mader, Ron. "Celebrating the Tule Tree". Planeta.com. Retrieved 2009 December 11. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
4. Chairez, Arturo (2000). "Arbol del Tule (Oaxaca)" (in Spanish). Mexico: Mexico Desconocido. Archived frae the original on 2010-06-28. Retrieved 2009 December 11. Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)