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The Panucó River flows across northern Veracruz.
Lake Catemaco sits amidst an patch of coastal mountains in southern Veracruz.
This is one part of a large area of the Americas where Spanish and Roman Catholic Christianity represent the majority.
The capital and namesake of San Luis Potosí state is the only city with more than a million residents. Other present or former cities of note include: Tres Zapotes, Real de Catorce (or just Catorce), Cempoalatl (Zempoala or Cempoala), Veracruz and Poza Rica (whose bounds include the location of El Tajín, a UNESCO World Heritage Site). Another World Heritage Site is the "Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan."
Straddling the state border of Veracruz with Puebla and Hidalgo is the Chicontepec Formation oil field.
A sampling of pre-Columbian languages follows: I. The Mayan languages spread from the south into Veracruz sometime after 800 B.C.E. Their languages borrowed heavily from the unrelated Olmec language. II. In central Veracruz Totanocan was spoken. III. The Olmecs who thrived in southeastern Veracruz and further southeast about 800 to 400 B.C.E. spoke a Mixe-Zoque language.
The best known religions were: I. the Jaguar Cult of the Olmecs, associated with the rain god and fertility. II. A rain god, Chac, held first place among the Mayans.
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1. Translates as True-cross.
2. Translates as Holy or Saint Lewis.
3. Oriental in Spanish.
4. Mother in English.
5. Sierra in Spanish.