That was hundreds of years ago. Nobody lives that long. j/k-She died from Tuberculosis: the declining health of Beethoven's mother, dying of tuberculosis, forced him to return home after only about two weeks in Vienna.
Approaching the mouth of the main grotto. Tolantongo is a box canyon and resort located 17 kilometres from Ixmiquilpan on Route 27 in the Mezquital Valley, State of Hidalgo in Mexico, It is about 1.5 hours northeast of Pachuca and 198 km or three-to-four hours northeast of Mexico City.
In his book Lo que el viento nos dejo: hojas de terruno hidalguense, journalist Enrique Rivas Paniagua gives the etymology of Tolantongo a very deep look: ... the neighboring towns called it Tonaltongo (derivation of Tonaltonko), ...