- Tetela de Ocampo
Tetela de Ocampo is a town, and the surrounding municipality of the same name, in the Sierra Norte region of the
Mexican state ofPuebla .Name
"Tetela" is a name of
Nahuatl origin, containing the elements "tetl" (hill) and "tla" (many): it thus means "place of many hills".Nahua s still inhabit the area.History
The settlement was founded in 1219 by four tribes of
Chichimeca s who came from the west, worshippedHuitzilopochtli , and fought in thexochiyaotl with the inhabitants ofZacatlán andTlaxcala .On
23 June 1861 it was given the status of a town "(villa)", with the "Ocampo" honorific forMelchor Ocampo , who had been assassinated earlier that month.In 1865, during the
French Intervention , it was the scene of fighting between loyalists (led by local son and later presidentJuan Nepomuceno Méndez ) andAustro-Hungarian cavalry.References
*http://www.emexico.gob.mx/work/EMM_1/Puebla/Mpios/21172a.htm
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