land to meet its own food needs and not be dependent on the outside economically. One reason the division remained was that during all of the colonial period and much into the 19th century, the Spanish and their descendants were mostly found on the San Pedro side, in what is still considered to be the center of the city of Cholula. Indigenous kept to their own neighborhoods in San Andrés and the outer communities of San Pedro. Despite the population eventually becoming almost all mestizo over the centuries, this division remains. Today, that division is recognized by the municipal status of San Andrés, which was established in 1861. The city was named the Distrito Cholula de Rivadavia in 1895 by the state in honor of Bernardino de Rivadavia. Since the founding of the first two villages, Cholula has never been abandoned, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in the Americas. References Municipalities of Puebla 1861 establishments in Mexico