Ixtaccíhuatl
The Iztaccíhuatl (also written Ixtaccíhuatl ) is the third highest mountain of the Mexico after the Pic of Orizaba (: 5636 m) and the Popocatépetl (: 5452 m). Its name comes from the Nahuatl “woman white” ( itzac wanting to say white/white and cíhuatl , woman).
This mountain has four peaks, highest culminates with: 5286 m above the sea level. They would represent the head, the chest, the Genou X and the feet of a deadened woman. Iztaccíhuatl, which one can see the top when the weather conditions lend themselves to it, is hardly to 70 km of Mexico City.
The first rise which one is sure goes back to 1889, but of the archaeological traces suggest that the Aztèques had already had to climb it before.
Iztaccíhuatl is in the North of the Popocatépetl, and both are connected by the Passage of the Cortes.
The legend of Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl
In the Aztec mythology, Iztaccíhuatl was a princess who fell in love with a soldier from her father. His/her father sent his lover guerroyer in the State of Oaxaca, promising his daughter to him as woman if it returned alive (what the king did not wish). One says to the Iztaccíhuatl princess that his/her lover had died, and she died itself of sorrow. When it returned, it died in its turn to have lost it. The gods covered them with snow and changed them into mountains. That of Iztaccíhuatl was named " woman blanche" because it resembled a woman lengthened on the back. As for him, it became the Volcan Popocatépetl, making rain fire on the Ground as a sign of rage, after the loss of its beloved.A different legend, implicant the Nevado de Toluca, is described on the page of the Popocatépetl.
Rise
Often evaluated with: 5286 meters of altitude, SRTM and the Mexican Institute of cartography agree to say that it only measures: 5230 meters.
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