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Marina or Malintzin [maˈlintsin] (c. 1500 – c. 1529), more popularly known as La Malinche [la maˈlintʃe], a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, became known for contributing to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519–1521), by acting as an interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. [1]
La Malinche, also known as Matlalcueye or Malintzin, is an inactive volcano (dormant for the last 3,100 years) located in the states of Tlaxcala and Puebla in Mexico. Officially, its summit reaches 4,461 metres (14,636 ft) above sea level, though it is generally considered to be closer to 4,440 metres (14,567 ft), using GPS measurements. [ 3 ]
Martín Cortés was born in 1522 in a former Aztec palace in New Spain in what is now Mexico City, Mexico.His father, conquistador Hernán Cortés, and his mother, Malintzin, Cortés's guide, interpreter, and companion, named him Martín after the Roman god of war and Cortés's father.
She is often known as La Malinche and also sometimes called "Malintzin" or Malinalli. [66] Later, the Aztecs would come to call Cortés "Malintzin" or La Malinche by dint of his close association with her. [67] Bernal Díaz del Castillo wrote in his account The True History of the Conquest of New Spain that Marina was "truly a great princess".
Her name is a Hispanicization of Malintzin, which is also an example of a nahuatlism used for a person who preferred foreign countries to his or her own. Nahuatlisms began to enter the Spanish lexicon in the 16th century, with the first contact between Spanish speakers and Nahuatl-speaking populations in Mesoamerica .
The King of Campeche gave Cortés a second translator, a bilingual Nahua-Maya slave woman named La Malinche (she was known also as Malinalli [maliˈnalːi], Malintzin [maˈlintsin] or Doña Marina [ˈdoɲa maˈɾina]). Aguilar translated from Spanish to Mayan, and La Malinche translated from Mayan to Nahuatl.
Among these women was a young Maya noblewoman called Malintzin, [113] who was given the Spanish name Marina. She spoke Maya and Nahuatl and became the means by which Cortés was able to communicate with the Aztecs. [112] From Tabasco, Cortés continued along the coast, and went on to conquer the Aztecs. [115]
The La Malinche—Matlalcueitl volcano, part of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, is within the park.The volcano has an elevation of 4,462 metres (14,639 ft) above sea level. [1]