Xicohtzinco

Xicohtzinco is a populace of the Mexican nation of Tlaxcala, conurbated to Zacatelco, but that via itself constitutes one of the 60 municipalities that integrate the country. The complete call of this town is Santo Toribio Xicohtzinco, in honor of the Spanish Santo Toribio de Liebana bishop of Astorga, who lived in the 5th century. His remains have been taken to the monastery of Liebana along with a relic of the Cross of Christ that this bishop delivered from the Holy Land.

The first bibliographical reference that we find of Santo Toribio Xicohtzinco corresponds to the Texoloc section 800 to 350 a.C. At the give up of the preceding segment, known as Tlatempa, the town experienced a demographic boom no longer most effective because of the normal growth of the population settled in it, however by means of the arrival of new human beings and by the year 800 it needed to end up a city with manipulate about a few peripheral villages. The arrival of latest inhabitants and the knowledge they added gave new vigor to the city of Santo Toribio Xicohtzinco.