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- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Part of
- Maya people
- Country
- Mexico
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- Huastec people
- topic's main category
- Category:Huastec
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
The Huastec /ˈwɑːstɛk/ 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Huastec people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.