Habitants de Tierra Caliente. People from Tierra Caliente Mexico.

Habitants de Tierra Caliente. Gente de Tierra Caliente entre.

The classic high division of the Andes includes five levels. The lowest level is the Tierra Caliente (Spanish for “hot land”). Here prevails tropical rainforest. Due to the climatic conditions of this part of the Andes is sparsely populated. Typical agricultural products are cocoa, bananas and sugar cane. In southern Mexico that stretches some areas of the states of Michoacán, Guerrero and Estado de Mexico.

Source: Voyage pittoresque et archéologique dans la partie la plus intéressante du Mexique by Carl Nebel. Published 1836.

Continuing

Picturesque and archaeological journey through Mexico, by Carl Nebel 1836.

El Hacendero et son majordome, by Carl Nebel 1834

La Mantilla. Mexican morning suit. A light lady’s coat.

Las Tortilleras. Costumes from the villages in the south of Puebla, Mexico.

Mexican Rancheros wearing sombreros by Carl Nebel.

The War Between the United States and Mexico by George Wilkins Kendall.

The charro. The mounted cattle herder of Mexico. The Spanish vaquero.

Mexican feather head-dresses and the mode of wearing them.

Mexican China Poblana dance costume

THE story of Catalina de Erauso. The fighting nun.

A Zapotec woman of South Mexico

Traditional Mexican costumes 1850s.

Indigenous of Chapultepec. Around Mexico City 1840.

Costumes of Mexican Actec at the time of Hernán Cortés.

Hawaii, Philippines, Cuba. Our islands and their people by José de Olivares.

History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Famous Indian leaders.