Tehuacán
Tehuacán

Tehuacán

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Tehuacan, also known as “Place of Gods”, it is one of the most important town in Puebla due to its economic development as well as its cultural, social and historical wealth.
It was considered a strategic point for the military actions by the Aztecs as Tehuacán used to connect the Puerto de Veracruz with Tenochtitlán. According to archeologists, it was inhabited 8,500 years before Christ. Tehuacán is also known to be the cradle of corn as a result of its fundamental role in the plants cultivation.

Visit

  • Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve

    One of the areas with the greatest wealth and biodiversity is the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán valley, declared in 2012 as UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. It is in the World Heritage list as a mixed site, there are only two mixed site out of the 35 places in this list. This biosphere reserve has 45 of the 70 species of columnar cacti reported in Mexico and also houses tropical deciduous forest, pine forest, pine-oak and cloud forest.

  • Museum of Evolution

    This museum has five rooms where visitors will learn from the formation of the universe to the transformation of corn through a didactic and fun approach. Visiting this museum enhances the understanding of the region as well as the man-nature relationship.

  • Archaeological Zone of Tehuacán el Viejo

    The Site Museum of Tehuacán is located in one of the areas with vestiges of oldest human settlements in Mesoamerica. You can admire more than 80 archaeological pieces including some monumental ones carved in stone and clay, as well as codices to know the ways of life and the means that the Popolocas developed for their subsistence.

  • Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

    The construction of the parish to honor the Virgen de la Inmaculada Concepción began in 1724, two centuries after the fall of Tenochtitlán. It has a Renaissance style, built with stone and adobe, which mixes both the native and Spanish culture. Then, in 1962, it became a cathedral as the diocese of Tehuacán was constituted through a bull of Pope John XXII. The celebration of the Virgen de la Inmaculada Concepción is on December 8th.

    What to eat?

    The mole de caderas is a representative dish of the region for the goat breeding; this dish follows an ancestral rite before sacrificing the animal. You can also try muéganos, and the pan de burro.

    What to eat?

    The mole de caderas is a representative dish of the region for the goat breeding; this dish follows an ancestral rite before sacrificing the animal. You can also try muéganos, and the pan de burro.

    What to buy?

    Its main products are hand-made embroidery from San Gabriel Chilas, onyx from San Antonio Texcala, burnished mud, and objects with palm and reed.

    What to buy?

    Its main products are hand-made embroidery from San Gabriel Chilas, onyx from San Antonio Texcala, burnished mud, and objects with palm and reed.

    How to get there?


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