San Isidro Buensuceso Explained

San Isidro Buenscueso
Settlement Type:Town
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Mexico
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Tlaxcala
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:San Pablo del Monte
Named For:Saint Isidore the Laborer
Coordinates:19.1528°N -98.1069°W
Population Total:7688

San Isidro Buensuceso or San Isidro Buen Suceso is a town in the municipality of San Pablo del Monte, Tlaxcala, Mexico, on the southern slope of La Malinche volcano. The town is named after Saint Isidore the Laborer (Spanish; Castilian: San Isidro Labrador), whose feast day is celebrated on May 15 each year.

The people of San Isidro Buensuceso are indigenous Nahuas; the first language of children is Nahuatl. It is the most remote Nahuatl-speaking town in Tlaxcala.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Messing, Jacqueline H. E. . Rockwell, Elsie . Local language promoters and new discursive spaces: Mexicano in and out of schools in Tlaxcala . Hidalgo, Margarita. Mexican Indigenous Languages at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century . Berlin, New York . Mouton de Gruyter . 252, 274 . 978-3-11-018597-3 . 2006.