SANTIAGO NUYOO

Santiago Nuyoo is a town that According to his etimologia means:
SANTIAGO:
Name of Santo Patron of the town
NUYOO:
It means in Mixteco: NUU: face
YOO: moon

Even that in some books of history of Tlaxiaco the author says that she means: AHEAD the MOON, in the book of Alfonso Case "Kings and Kingdoms of the Mixteca" appears like: LAND OF THE MOON.

Foundation

The first settlers were travelling and he thinks that they came directly from the Small Coast or from the people of Zacatepec. Its guide of them I indicate to them that the selected place was near rio, in one of the branches that atravieza in the same one. Since saw reflect the moon face with a rabbit figure and when wanting to reach to this animal reason Go up to them to the summit of the montana, where they founded his community, that before was called Old Town Yucunino and when not obtaining before described and with the news of the arrival of espanoles, returned to lower to this place, in where they settled down and they founded his town that at the moment takes its name: Santiago Nuyoo.
In those times the grounds were covered with plants, flowers and deposit of minerals, but in the arrival of the conquerors they chose to settle down and to stop to be able to be understood with the Indians first they learned to speak his dialecto and they implanted the catolica religion, where the stage of the construction of a church begins to adore its Dominican and jesuitas Gods, where the franciscanos currents took part.
CIPO- RFM, Macario Vasquez Sarabia