Árbol del Tule (Spanish for "the Tule Tree")

El Árbol del Tule is a very large Moctezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum – called "Ahuehuete" in Nahuatl) located outside of the church grounds in the town center of Santa María del Tule in the state of Oaxaca, México, approximately 13 Km from the city of Oaxaca on the road to Mitla. It is 43 m tall, has a circumference of 35.87 m, and has the largest diameter of any living tree in the world at 11.42 m.

The age of El Tule is unknown, with estimates ranging between 1200 and 3000 years. Local Zapotec legend holds that it was planted about 1400 years ago by Pechocha, a priest of Ehecatl, the Aztec storm-god; its position on a sacred site (later taken over by the Roman Catholic Church) would tend to support this.

The tree is nicknamed the "Tree of Life" for all the images of animals that are reputedly visible in the tree's gnarled trunk.