Tecuanes - Jaguars. TERRITORY OF TRADITIONAL DANCES OF Tecuanes (Jaguars)

By Oscar Cortes Palma

 Approximately 150 towns that dance disguised as jaguars in Mexico, 135 villages are located in this region: "The Suriana region." On the border between the states of Guerrero, Morelos, Puebla, Mexico and Oaxaca.

Tecuanes dances (Nahuatl word meaning jaguars, tigers, wolves, wild animals) and other variants include a region comprising about 10, 000 square kilometers and includes the border villages located between the states of Mexico, Morelos, Guerrero and Puebla.

In the state of Morelos, this dance is danced in 13poblados:

1. Alpuyeca, Xochitepec

2. Axochiapan

3. Atlacahualoya, Axochiapan

4. Coatetelco, Miacatlán

5. The Fig Tree, Jojutla

6. Ocotepec, Cuernavaca

7. Tenextepango, Villa de Ayala

8. Tetecala

9. Tepalcingo

10. Tetelpa, Zacatepec

11. Xoxocotla, Puente de Ixtla

12. Tlatenchi, Jojutla

13. Telixtac, Axochiapan

Previously it was danced in other villages more like Tepoztlan, Tehuixtla and Temixco, but stopped danced in the course of the twentieth century.

Tecuan dance is also danced in the villages near Morelospertenecientesal state Guerrero.Hasta now 46 towns have registered but may be a little longer, and are located in northern and mountain region of Guerrero:

1. Acapetlahuaya, Canute

2. Apaxtla Castrejon

3. Apetlanca, Cuetzala Progress

4. 

5. Ahuehuepan, Teloloapan

6. Alpoyeca

7. Atlixtac

8. Tlaquiltepec

9. Cacalutla

10. Coyuca de Catalan,

11. Coatepec Costales, Teloloapan

12. 

13. Progress Cuetzala

14. Cutzamala de Pinzon

15. Chaucingo

16. Chilacachapa

17. Huitzuco de los Figueroa

18. Huamuxtitlán

19. Huehuetepec

20. San Andrés Huixtac

21. Mezcala, Eduardo Neri

22. 

23. Ixcatepec, Arcelia,

24. Malinaltepec

25. Mexiquiapan

26. Ozomatlán, Huitzuco

27. Oxtotitlan

28. Rio Florido, Coyuca de Catalán

29. Pachivia

30. Potoichan, Copanatoyac

31. Poliutla, Tlapehuala

32. Tecoyo, Alcozauca de Guerrero

33. Teloloapan

34. Tlapa

35. ,

36. 

37. Temalacatzingo, Olinalá

38. Tototepec

39. 

40. Tlatzala, Tlapa

41. Tenamazapa

42. 

43. Tomatal, Iguala

44. Tuxpan, Iguala

45. Xalpatlahuac

46. ​​Zapotitlan

And also dances in Puebla villages bordering the states of Morelos and Guerrero:

The dances of the Tecuanes also danced in the villages of the State of Mexico near Morelos and Guerrero, in these villages also known as dance of wolves.

And also dances in the towns of Puebla bordering the states of Morelos and Guerrero:

1. Acatlán de Osorio

2. Ahuehuetitla

3. Boqueron, Acatlán de Osorio

4. Chietla

5. Chinantla

6. Chiautla de Tapia

7. Huehuetlán El Chico

8. warrior Ixcamilpa

9.-La Galarza, Izúcar de Matamoros

10. Escape Lagunillas

11. Tlaxcuapan, Tecuautitlan

12. Yeloixtlahuaca

13. Tzicatlán

Information obtained from the book Dance of the Tecuanes (jaguars).

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