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Museum and botanical garden “Dr. Faustino Miranda”
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Museum and botanical garden “Dr. Faustino Miranda”

May 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría

Museum and botanical garden “Dr. Faustino Miranda”

In the middle of the noise and the chaos that you can find in Tuxtla Gutierrez there is a quiet calm place where you can find peace. It is the botanical garden that presents a great variety of scenarios throughout the different seasons of the year.

This spring it brings you a carpet of golden leaves while the trees wait for the May showers to dress up in their beautiful green leaves along with the grass and flowers.

The botanical garden fosters since 1949 more than 900 species of plants and trees. These species help with different programs to help on research, […]

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Lacandones
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Lacandones

May 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría

Lacandones

The Lacandones are one of the most remote ethnic groups that come fro the Maya Culture still remaining. They call themselves “hach winic” which means “real man”. Some things that stand out from the Lacandones is their handmade work with fabric, ceramic, flutes and a kind of boat called “piraguas” which are boats that only fit 1 to 2 persons.

The name “Lacandon” comes from their very beginnings when they used to live in an island in the Lacantun River, so they were known as “the Lacantun”, with time the name changed to Lacandones.

This group of people has tried to keep […]

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Río La Venta Canyon the sacred
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Río La Venta Canyon the sacred

May 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría

Río La Venta Canyon the sacred

A river well know for its natural walls as result of a geological fracture that turned into a canyon with caves, rapids and waterfalls.

This wonderful place is great for adventurous people as it is full of activities such as hiking. The sacred canyon belongs to the Biosfera El Ocote and itís about 75 km. long. You can see how the walls get closer and closer making a deep dark tunnel that turns into a cave where there are no plants, and all you can hear is the different kind of birds that make that their home.

In the past these caves […]

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Izapa Archaeological Zone
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Izapa Archaeological Zone

May 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría

Izapa Archaeological Zone

At the valley next to the Tacana volcano one of the highest elevations in southern Mexico, the mayans developed one of the most important archaeological sites where the Mixe-Zoque and Mayans lived. This place is named Izapa, considered one of the biggest religious and civic centers on the Pacific Valley.

This urban city (1500 B.C) is formed by approximately 80 structures which delimit the central plaza, mayan ball game, patios and and advanced hydraulic system for water management.

The people that lived in Izapa are considered the creators of great scientific achievements, where is considered the oldest place where the use […]

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Nucu a taste of our own
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Nucu a taste of our own

May 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría

Nucu a taste of our own

Here in Chiapas there is an exquisite dish that has been around for years and that lots of locals and tourists have enjoyed. “The Chiapas caviar”.

The nucu is an ant that comes out after the first days of the rain season in Chiapas right before the sunrise. The nucu comes from out of the ground to get reproduced at this point in some places people collect it to cook it and eat it. Some other names to the nucu are: chicatana tzimin and zompopo being Nucu the most popular.

The price that you pay for it can be high since […]

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Suchiapa “The way of the leaves”
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Suchiapa “The way of the leaves”

May 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría

Suchiapa “The way of the leaves”

Photography: René Araujo

Special thanks to: Domingo Champo Pérez

One of the biggest festivities in Suchiapa is the day they honor the “Santa Cruz” (holy Cross). On this day the tradition, which is called the way of the leaves, is about a plant called “espadana”. This plant is found in Nambiyugua and its characterized by its leaves in a shape of a sword and pointy thorns. This place is the scenario to perform what the ancestors have determined to the locals and close by communities. The people make arrangements with lots of time and dedication so on April 26 of […]

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