Huautla

Huautla is a metropolis within the Mexican country of Oaxaca. It belongs to the municipality of Huautla de Jimenez and the District of Teotitlan, within the Canada Region. Since 2015, it's been a part of the Pueblos Magicos software. This is particularly due to its psychedelic tourism due to its association with Maria Sabina 1894 to 1986, a Mazatec healer who used psilocybic mushrooms in her shamanic rituals. Little is known about the history of the Mazatec human beings. One model is based totally on the translation of the annals of Quauhtinchan, according to which they descend from the Nonoalcas Chichimecas.

Another model refers that the location was inhabited via the Mazatecs for the reason that earlier than the advent of the Nonoalcas Chichimecas, having arrived there from the east after a long pilgrimage around 890 AD. Towards year 1300 they have been liberated from the domain of those and manors have been based: the one of the low element or of the east that protected the prevailing San Pedro Ixcatlan, San Jose Independence, San Miguel Soyaltepec and San Felipe Jalapa de Díaz; and that of the higher or western component, which included Huautla and nearby towns.