Cholula (English spelling)

Japanese: チョルラ（英語表記）Cholula

Its official name is Cholula de Rivadabia. It is a city in the southwest of Puebla State, central Mexico. It is located about 100 km southeast of Mexico City, in the southeastern part of the Mexican Plateau, at an altitude of about 2,150 m. It is a place where Indian culture flourished, dating back to the Early Classic Period (100-600) and reaching its peak in the Late Classic Period (900-1200), and is known for its many churches with round towers. Before the Spanish conquest, there were hundreds of temples around a huge pyramid (54 m high, 18 ha base area) made of sun-dried bricks, but in 1519, H. Cortes destroyed the city while marching to Tenochtitlan (present-day Mexico City), the capital of the Aztec Empire, and it is said that he built the current churches on top of each temple. The Quetzalcoatl Temple on top of the pyramid was also destroyed at that time, and the Los Remedios Basilica was built in its place. Currently, the city is a religious and tourist center attracting many pilgrims and tourists, and is also the commercial and industrial center for the surrounding agricultural regions, distributing and processing grains, maguey (a type of agave, from whose juice the alcohol known as pulque is brewed), fruits, vegetables, and livestock. The city has a brewery, flour mill, and textile factory. Population 26,748 (1980).

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Japanese:

正式名称はチョルラデリバダビア Cholula de Rivadabia。メキシコ中部，プエブラ州南西部の都市。メキシコ市の東南東約 100km，メキシコ高原南東部にあり，標高約 2150m。メキシコ初期古典期 (100～600) にさかのぼり後期古典期 (900～1200) に最盛期を迎えたインディオの文化が栄えた地で，多数の円塔をもつ聖堂があることで知られる。スペイン征服前には日干し煉瓦でできた巨大なピラミッド (高さ 54m，底面積 18ha) を中心に数百の神殿があったが，1519年 H.コルテスがアステカ帝国の首都テノチティトラン (現メキシコ市) へ進軍中市を破壊，のちそれぞれの神殿の上に現在の聖堂を建てたといわれる。ピラミッドの上にあったケツァルコアトル神殿もこのとき破壊され，代ってロスレメディオス聖堂が建てられている。現在宗教，観光の中心地として多くの巡礼や観光客が集るほか，周辺の農業地帯の商工業中心地として，穀物，マゲイ (リュウゼツランの一種で，その液からプルケと呼ばれる酒を醸造) ，果実，野菜，家畜などを集散，加工し，市内には酒造所，製粉所，織物工場などがある。人口2万 6748 (1980) 。

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