Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Among the ancient Aztecs, a garden-bed assigned out of the communal land to a particular family.
- noun A cultivated field, especially a field of maize.
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Examples
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Miltomatl stands for a 'tomato' from the milpa, which is a polycultural agrosystem with maize and beans as main crops.
Seeds Aside 2008
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Can't Post | Private Reply have been fishing in lago aqua milpa N of Tepic for many years and have always liked the area ..
move to Tepic 2009
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The milpa, or cornfield, is probably the most important element in the life of the rural Mexican farmer, apart from his family ... read more cuisines culture-customs
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Corn, beans and squash: the life cycle of the milpa by
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My wife hiked up to see her milpa with its magnificent views of nearby mountains and canyons and was mightily impressed.
Chamula Power 2009
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Corn, beans and squash: the life cycle of the milpa
Squash vine soup with corn dumplings: Sopa de guias con chochoyones 2009
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My wife hiked up to see her milpa with its magnificent views of nearby mountains and canyons and was mightily impressed.
Chamula Power 2009
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The village appears to be small but most people live out in the country near their milpa in small communities.
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When I say I go native in Chiapas I mean eating tamales and visiting indigenous villages and beautiful places, not living in a primitive hut on a mountaintop scratching out a living in my tiny milpa while taking care of 10 kids who work the streets of San Cristóbal 12 hours a day selling chiclets and hoping to survive another day.
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The village appears to be small but most people live out in the country near their milpa in small communities.
hernesheir commented on the word milpa
When I lived in Mexico I was told by a farmer in the state of Guanajuato that people in that area occasionally unearthed clay figurines when they plowed their milpas before planting -- that their ancestors buried in hopes of a good maize crop. I was told they rebury them so as not to disturb the gods of their ancestors.
July 24, 2010
fbharjo commented on the word milpa
The word milpa is a Mexican Spanish term meaning "field", and is derived from the Nahuatl word phrase mil-pa "to the field" (Nahuatl mil-li "field" + -pa "towards").
October 3, 2010