Manitoba Colony, Mexico

Manitoba Colony is a large community of Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonites mostly north of Ciudad Cuauhtémoc in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico.

[1] It was founded in 1922 by Old Colony Mennonites from Manitoba, Canada, and consisted originally of 47 villages.

It is the largest and oldest Mennonite colony in Mexico.

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A Mennonite family, consisting of nine people, both children and adults, standing next to a flowerbed outside a house in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Mennonite family in Chihuahua, Mexico.