The park is between the Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl volcanos near the Cortés Pass.

Both Puerto Cortés, the country's largest port, and San Pedro Sula, Honduras's industrial capital, are located here, as is La Ceiba, the third largest city in the country.

Later, she became a mistress to Cortés and gave birth to his first son, Martín, who is considered one of the first Mestizos ( people of mixed European and indigenous American ancestry ).

Cortés took Marina to quash a rebellion in Honduras in 1524 – 26 when she is seen serving again as interpreter ( suggestive of a knowledge of Maya dialects beyond Chontal and Yucatán.

In the Lienzo de Tlaxcala ( History of Tlaxcala ), for example, not only is Cortés rarely portrayed without Malinche poised by his ear, but she is shown at times on her own, seemingly directing events as an independent authority.

The first hand account of Bernal Díaz del Castillo's True History of the Conquest of New Spain paints a portrait of a noble leader who struggles to maintain order in his kingdom after he is taken prisoner by Hernán Cortés.

In the codex's description of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortés, the Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorial Nahuatl, a speech which as described verbatim in the codex ( written by Sahagún's Tlatelolcan informants who were probably not eyewitnesses of the meeting ) included such prostrate declarations of divine or near-divine admiration as, " You have graciously come on earth, you have graciously approached your water, your high place of Mexico, you have come down to your mat, your throne, which I have briefly kept for you, I who used to keep it for you ," and, " You have graciously arrived, you have known pain, you have known weariness, now come on earth, take your rest, enter into your palace, rest your limbs ; may our lords come on earth.

Another is the case of Hernán Cortés and his mistress La Malinche, who gave birth to another of the first multi-racial people in the Americas.

Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican peoples cultivated the vine of the vanilla orchid, called tlilxochitl by the Aztecs, and Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés is credited with introducing both vanilla and chocolate to Europe in the 1520s.

* June – Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, is declared deposed due to his captivity by conquistador Hernán Cortés.

* Diego Velázquez and Hernán Cortés conquer Cuba ; Velázquez is appointed Governor.

The former is conquest of the campaign, led by Hernán Cortés from 1519 – 21 and his Tlaxcala and other ' indigenous peoples ' allied against the Mexica / Aztec empire.

Aztec culture and history is primarily known through archaeological evidence found in excavations such as that of the renowned Templo Mayor in Mexico City ; from indigenous bark paper codices ; from eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors such as Hernán Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo ; And especially from 16th and 17th century descriptions of Aztec culture and history written by Spanish clergymen and literate Aztecs in the Spanish or Nahuatl language, such as the famous Florentine Codex compiled by the Franciscan monk Bernardino de Sahagún with the help of indigenous Aztec informants.

One of the more remarkable attributes of the Guadalupe of Extremadura is that she is dark, like the Americans, and thus she became the perfect icon for the missionaries who followed Cortés to convert the natives to Christianity.

The instrumental composition which plays while the cacti are dancing is " Jesusita en Chihuahua ", a trademark of the Mexican Revolution which was written by Quirino Mendoza y Cortés in 1916.

Iztaccíhuatl lies to the north of Popocatépetl, to which it is connected by the high altitude Paso de Cortés.

It is linked to the Iztaccihuatl volcano to the north by the high saddle known as the Paso de Cortés.

Camilo Blanes Cortés ( born September 16, 1946 ), better known as Camilo Sesto, is a Spanish singer, composer and producer who enjoyed fame during the 1970s and the 1980s.

He is discussed in Chapter 8 of the second part of Cervantes ' Don Quixote ( 1615 ), along with Julius Caesar and Hernán Cortés among others.

The Gulf of California ( also known as the Sea of Cortez or Sea of Cortés or Vermilion Sea ; locally known in the Spanish language as Mar de Cortés or Mar Bermejo or Golfo de California ) is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland.

The other story states that the sauce is of pre-Hispanic times and this was served to Hernán Cortés and the other conquistadors by Moctezuma II.

The Museum of Contemporary Art ( Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, MACO ) is housed in the so-called Casa de Cortés.

Cortés and Malinche is a dignified view of the creation of the first mestizo, a result of the Spanish colonialism in Mexico.

Fesitranh was by far the country's most powerful labor federation, with most of its unions located in San Pedro Sula and the Puerto Cortés Free Zone.

Cortés had located a Spanish priest, Gerónimo de Aguilar, who had spent several years in captivity among the Maya peoples in Yucatán following a shipwreck.

85 % of the city of Cuernavaca is dedicated to housing, and much of this is in upper-class housing developments such as Rancho Cortés, Rancho Tetela, and Colonia del Bosque, which are located on the outskirts of the city.

The Hacienta de San Antonio Atlacomulco is located south of the Cuernavaca and was established by Hernán Cortés as one of the first sugar plantations in Mexico.

The Casa Municipal, also referred to as the Casa de Cortés, is a building located on the north side of the Plaza Hidalgo.

The largest of the exhibits housed in this building was located in the “ Salón del Descumbrimento de América .” The Salón contained documents, maps, and other objects related to the discovery of the Americas, including a set of 120 letters and manuscript that had belonged to Christopher Columbus, the last testament of Cortés, and detailed dioramas of historic moments.

The name of this station comes from the area in which it is now located, which was known as the Villa de Cortés in colonial times.

Huivulai (" Long neck " in the Mayo language ) is an island located five kilometers off the coast of the Mexican state of Sonora in the Sea of Cortés.

Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport, also known as La Mesa International Airport, is located from the city of San Pedro Sula, in the Cortés Department in Honduras.

However, when the Aztecs revolted and expelled Cortés and his army from Tenochitlan ( La Noche Triste, June 30, 1520 ), Tecuichpotzin was left behind in the city by the Spanish.

He has written and presented some 30 television documentaries, including The Fall of Constantinople, Napoleon's Hundred Days, Cortés and Montezuma, The Antiquities of Turkey, The Gates of Asia, Maximilian of Mexico, Toussaint l ' Ouverture of Haiti, The Knights of Malta, The Treasure Houses of Britain, and The Death of the Prince Imperial in the Zulu War.

Cortés has been instrumental in the building of over 30 grassroots organizations known for developing and training community leaders.

The hacienda was founded by a cousin of Hernán Cortés called Juan Gutiérrez Altamirano around 1528 with an area of about 30, 000 hectares and 2, 000 workers.

There he saw " the things which have been sent to the king from the golden land "— the Aztec treasure that Hernán Cortés had sent home to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V following the fall of Mexico.

In the end, a shamed Cortés delivered Cuauhtémoc from Aldrete's hands.

Eventually Cortés recovered some gold from a noble's house, but most of the tales about " Aztec gold " were a myth.

Díaz wrote that afterwards, Cortés suffered from insomnia due to guilt, and badly injured himself while wandering at night.

In the meantime, Cortés had marched overland from Mexico to Honduras, arriving in 1525.

La Malinche and Hernán Cortés in the city of Xaltelolco, in a drawing from the late 16th century Aztec codices | codex History of Tlaxcala.

La Malinche (; c. 1496 or c. 1505 – c. 1529 ), known also as Malinalli, Malintzin or Doña Marina, was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who played a role in the Spanish conquest of Mexico, acting as interpreter, advisor, lover, and intermediary for Hernán Cortés.

According to Díaz, she spoke to emissaries from Moctezuma in their native tongue Nahuatl and pointed to Cortés as the chief Spaniard to speak for them.

He uses her relation to Cortés symbolically to represent Mexican culture as originating from rape and violation.

The first contact between indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, when Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to escape from the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.

Unlike Bernal Díaz, who was remembering his memories many years after the fact, Cortés wrote his Cartas de relación ( Letters from Mexico ) in the moment in order to justify his actions to the Spanish Crown.

Pedro de Alvarado and Cristóbal de Olid at the command of Hernán Cortés, came from Guatemala through San Salvador and Honduras.

" In 1525, Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés ordered the hanging of Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc from a Ceiba tree after overtaking his empire.

Relations between the Spaniards and their hosts were uneasy, especially given Cortés ' repeated insistence that the Aztecs desist from idol worship and human sacrifice ; in order to ensure their own safety, the Spaniards took the Aztec king Moctezuma hostage.

During Cortés ' absence, relations between the Spaniards and their hosts went from bad to worse, and Alvarado ordered a preemptive slaughter of Aztec nobles and priests observing a religious festival.

Pedro de Alvarado was sent out by Hernán Cortés with 120 horsemen, 300 footsoldiers and several hundred Cholula and Tlaxcala auxiliaries ; he was engaged in the conquest of the highlands of Guatemala from 1523 to 1527.

File: Mexico-Popocatepetl. jpg | Popocatepetl from the north, viewed from Paso de Cortés

File: Popocatepetl pasodecortez cut. JPG | Popocatepetl viewed from Paso de Cortés