Sunday 29 June 2014
Tolantongo is
a box canyon and resort located 17 kilometres from Ixmiquilpan on Route 27 in
the Mezquital Valley, State of Hidalgo in Mexico, It is about 1.5 hours
northeast of Pachuca and 198 km or three-to-four hours northeast of Mexico
City. The closest village to the resort is called El Cardonal and it is part of
Cardonal Municipality. From the Nahuatl Tonaltonko (Home where it feels warm).
In his book "Lo que el viento nos dejo: hojas de terruno
hidalguense", journalist Enrique Rivas Paniagua gives the etymology of
Tolantongo a very deep look: "... the neighboring towns called it
Tonaltongo (derivation of Tonaltonko), ... but in 1975 when this eden was
discovered and was promoted by the magazine "Mexico Desconocido" the
name was misspelled and that is how it "officially" got the name
Tolantongo. Source
