Ahuehuete


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Noun1.Ahuehuete - Mexico's most famous treeAhuehuete - Mexico's most famous tree; a giant specimen of Montezuma cypress more than 2,000 years old with a girth of 165 feet at Santa Maria del Tule; "some say the Tule tree is the world's largest single biomass"
Tule tree
Mexico, United Mexican States - a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810
Mexican swamp cypress, Montezuma cypress, Taxodium mucronatum - cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands
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[...] en dicho Pueblo, en la parte inferior de el, se conoce haber estado el palacio de Caltanni, que quiere decir Casa en bajo, de la que aun en el dia se hallan vestigios, y un Arbol grande dicho, Ahuehuete, que esta oradado y por tradicion de unos a otros, dicen aquellos Naturales senalando el Ahujero, que estubo amarrado alli el Caballo de Cortes.
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