More specifically, this town is located in the Juchitán District in the west of a geographic region known as the Istmo de Tehuantepec. Before she moved to Mexico City at the age of seven, Toledo grew up in an indigenous community here that spoke the native language of Isthmus Zapotec—one of 57 distinct forms of the Zapotec macrolanguage—and she started writing poetry in this language from a very early age. As a result, she now has the distinction of being the first woman to ever write and publish in this native language.[3]