Yagul

Yagul ('old tree') is a Pre-Columbian Zapotec city in 'Card Table Blues.' It's the most important city in the eastern arm of the Valley of Oaxaca and is primarily inhabited by ethnic Zapotecs. It's the closest major city in the Valley of Oaxaca to the town where most of the protagonists live. It essentially functions for them like Chicago did for me when I was a kid.