The river's positionally next to the hill allowing the group to access the plains on top of the banks that would be the home for their crops and water for irrigation.

To contextualize, the first settlement of Tlaxiaco, was located on top of a tall hill next to the Yuta Toto River where the temple of the gods is also situated.

It is inferred that the name was related to the Aztec warriors’ surveillance post which was made to control the Mixtec people's activities or the fact that they were located on the top of a hill where they had a clear view of great distance.

The ruins of their settlement are mostly located in Jaha Nuu or Yuku Yuu and the community thinks it needs to be preserved to help protect against looting.

Moreover, labeling it as an archaeological zone will allow for the establishment of the antiquity of the zone by using the Carbon-14, or radiocarbon dating system on the artifacts that are found in the tombs: stone axes, idols, polished green stones, flint beads, obsidian arrowheads, grinding wheels, and metates (mortars and molcajetes).

The scattered ceramic fragments found all over the town's territory are inferred to be from the upper neolithic and paleolithic era.

Similarly, “Guezas” or “turned hand” is made up of mutual aid between neighbors and relatives in tasks like preparing the land, and planting and harvesting the cornfields and beans, which is not paid with money but with the same labor.

Usually, women's role in the community consists of managing the home through food preparation, cleaning, grinding to make tortillas, and taking care of children, although they also participate in activities outside the house, such as cultivation tasks like weeding, picking, cutting wheat, or planting.

The market is the most substantial in the micro-region, where merchants from different municipalities such as Santo Domingo Ixcatlán, Santamaría Yolotepéc, and Chalcatongo de Hidalgo.

In addition, they grow wheat, beans, tomatoes, tomato, nopal, pumpkin, chilacayote, oats, and chayote, and in the lower geographical areas, they also grow palm, cane, orange, mango, mamey, avocado, banana, lemon, and cane.

Sugar cane is also produced in the Yerbasanta, parts of Vergel, Santa Catarina Cuanana and Yollotepéc de la Paz communities mostly to sell in the Plaza of Santiago, Yosondua in November and December.

[3] Livestock: Families mostly have sheep, goats, pigs, ranch chickens, bull teams, turkeys, horses, and donkeys.

The lower branches are cut to prevent killing the tree and are stored for later use during the rainy season, pear, peach is planted in temperate zones along with mamey, banana, coffee, mango, black sapote, avocado, red plum, orange, lemon, medlar, papaya, and lime.

This river is contaminated by human resources such as bags, bottles, and soap coming from the municipality itself and affecting 5 communities: Centro Yosondúa, La Cascada, Cabandihui, El Vergel, and Cuajilote.

In addition, whirlpools can be found in Alacrán, Imperio, Cabecera de Cañada, Primavera, and San Miguel Ixcatlán.

[3] The average schooling is low with a 52.94%  percentage of the population 15 years old and older who did not finish their studies, which can be due to external factors such as a lack of economic resources.

If they are not studying anymore, usually after primary school, they take on full employment such as being assistants to a plumber, bricklayer, carpenter, etc., cleaning in neighboring towns, or supporting their parent's lands.

Currently, there are elders in the community who continue speaking Mixteco, a form of resistance to past school's attempts to erase their culture.

There is a movement to promote the preservation of their culture, especially with state recognition of Indigenous communities being legal entities of the public law.