Mexcaltitan - a city on the water (12 photos)

Mexcaltitan (Mexcaltitan) translated from the Nahuatl language means "island, full of mescal" (a type of strong alcoholic beverage). This is - a tiny round island off Mexico's Pacific coast, with a population of just over 800 people. According to legend, this place is the ancestral home of the Aztecs.

1. Mexcaltitan (App. Mexcaltitan), full name Mexcaltitan de Uribe (App. Mexcaltitan de Uribe) - village in Mexico, the State of Nayarit, the municipality of Santiago Iskuintla located on the same island.



2. Its diameter does not exceed 400 meters.



3. Mexcaltitan located in the lagoon among the most extensive mangroves in Mexico.



4. The city is located on the marshland, among numerous channels formed by mangrove forest.



5. During the rainy season, which is in August - September, its streets turned into canals.



6. The roofs of the town.



7. According to the version that has not received sufficient scientific evidence, Mekskaltitan - a legendary Aztlán, the ancestral home of the Aztecs, where in 1091 they went on a journey in search of a better place to live and settled in one and a half thousand kilometers - in Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City). < br />


8. According to one legend, during the long journey to the promised land of the Aztecs staged overnight on the island. However, in the course of excavations carried out on the island no Aztec artifacts were found.



9. The population, according to the 2010 census, was 818 people.



10. Currently, the entire population of the city occupied by shrimp.



11. During the rainy season, almost all the water floods the streets of the city and the inhabitants forced to move to live on the boat.



12. In the city, oddly enough, there is virtually no facilities for tourists - however, as the crime.