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Sacred Mexaltitan Island Reveals Ancient Sacred City
From the air Mexaltitan looks like a floating cartwheel in the river delta. Anthropologists see a once sacred Olmec Toltec and Nahua settlement with a circular street plan. The island hosts 2,500 residents living in adobe homes and relying on fishing, oysters, shrimp, tobacco and maize. June 29 marks the fiesta of St. Peter and St. Paul when couples wed by canoe Mass.
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Los Angeles Times
Mexcaltitan
Mexico
Mexaltitan
Pacific Ocean
Tepic
State
Nayarit
St. Peter
St. Paul