Around 667,000 Otomi people live in Central Mexico, spread across the states of Hidalgo, Mexico, and Querétaro. They were subjugated by the Aztecs before European contact, and some joined Cortes at Tenochtitlan. Xaltocan was an Otomi settlement from the 1200s until 1395, when they were driven out by the Tepanecs of Azcapotzalco. Some researchers link them to Tula's builders in the 900s. Wikipedia traces their Central Mexican presence back to 8000 BCE, overlapping with Tlatilco culture at 1000 BCE.
Otomi people may have contributed to building Teotihuacan and Tula
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- Over 700,000 Otomi people still live in Central Mexico, with about 80% in the Queretaro area, roughly 100 km northwest of Teotihuacan
- The Otomi were one of the cultures dominated by the Aztecs before the European conquest
- Xaltocan on Lake Texcoco was populated by Otomi people since the 1200s; they were driven out in 1395 by the Aztec Triple Alliance
- Some Otomi joined Cortes's forces for the siege of Tenochtitlan
- Some archaeologists believe the Otomi culture was responsible for building Tula in the 900s, a culture otherwise known as the Toltecs
- Wikipedia traces the Otomi in Central Mexico back to 8000 BCE
- The Tlatilco people inhabited the Valley of Mexico at 1000 BCE
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Otomien.wikipedia.org
the Otomi ethnic group totaled 667,038 people in the Mexican Republic in 2015, [2] making them the fifth largest Indigenous people in the country.
Otomi People | History, Culture & Status - Lessonstudy.com
there are about 42,000 Otomi people living around the Sierra Madre mountains, also in smaller populations in the states of Queretaro,
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