Tiswin

Tiswin (known as tesgüino and tejuino in Mexico) is an <a href="/facts/Alcoholic_beverage/HSHVWBtX">alcoholic beverage</a> brewed from <a href="/facts/Maize/lJ6c5xMH">corn</a>. Tiswin is also the sacred <a href="/facts/Saguaro/d8CmXlzl">saguaro</a> wine of the <a href="/facts/Tohono_O%2527odham/Rp5N55Dx">Tohono O'odham</a>, a group of <a href="/facts/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas/LG2r6wXm">aboriginal Americans</a> who reside primarily in the <a href="/facts/Sonoran_Desert/RqlWcLnd">Sonoran Desert</a> of the southeastern <a href="/facts/Arizona/6ayM3swJ">Arizona</a> and northwest <a href="/facts/Mexico/IT5bwhdh">Mexico</a>.
The <a href="/facts/Saguaro/d8CmXlzl">saguaro</a>, the largest cactus in the world, is in many respects the sacred tree of the <a href="/facts/Tohono_O%2527odham/Rp5N55Dx">Tohono O'odham</a>, who reside in the Sonoran Desert of southeastern Arizona and northwest Mexico. 
From the fruit of the <a href="/facts/Saguaro/d8CmXlzl">saguaro</a> they make a sacred fermentation called tiswin or sometimes nawai.

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