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Northern Mexico (Spanish: el Norte de México IPA: [el ˈnoɾte ðe ˈmexiko] ⓘ), commonly referred as El Norte, is an informal term for the northern cultural and geographical area in Mexico. Depending on the source, it contains some or all of the states of Baja California , Baja California Sur , Chihuahua , Coahuila , Durango , Nuevo León ...
Indigenous creeds and rituals are still practiced in countries with large percentages of Amerindians, such as Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru.Various Afro-Latin American traditions such as Santería, Candomblé, Umbanda, Macumba, and tribal-voodoo religions are also practiced, mainly in Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti.
The Tian Tan Buddha statue of Buddha in Hong Kong.. Buddhism is a non-theistic Dharmic religion and philosophy. [8] Buddhism was founded around the 5th century BCE in present-day Nepal by Siddhartha Gautama, known to his followers as the Buddha, with the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path as its central principles.
La Sierra Norte de Oaxaca is a heavily wooded region in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is 62 km from the city of Oaxaca on Federal highway 175, heading east towards Tuxtepec . [ 1 ] The region is divided into three districts: Ixtlán , which has 26 municipalities , Villa Alta, which has 25 municipalities and Mixe , which has 17 municipalities.
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Mayan God Chaac in Copan sculpture museum. The Maya religion was the ancient one. It was practiced a lot in the timeline of the 4th and 7th century, AD. It was practiced in some parts of Central and South America, and it was based on polytheistic beliefs and had to do with a big number of rituals with occasional animals and maybe even human sacrifices.
In France, Jean-Baptiste Colbert initiated a training programme for Les jeunes de langues (The Youth of Languages), young linguists in the diplomatic service, like François Pétis de la Croix, who, like his father and his son, served as an Arabic interpreter to the King.
The Misiones Orientales (lit. ' Eastern Missions ' ) (or Siete Pueblos de las Misiones ( Spanish pronunciation: [miˈsjones oɾjenˈtales] , Sete Povos das Missões ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɛtʃi ˈpɔvuz dɐz miˈsõjs] , lit.