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Tepache or chicha

The word comes from the Nahuatl tepache “tepiatl” which means corn drink was made with this cereal but now its most famous is produced by the mixture of pineapple and sugar.

One of the most popular fermented beverage of Mexico, as it usually has a low alcohol level in form of processing (less than 1% Alc. V ol), the custom of making this drink with corn continues in several communities especially Indians of Mexico, as in the states of Oaxaca, Queretaro, Guerrero, Sonora, Yucatan and Chiapas, where a higher alcohol level was subject to Mayan religious cults.

Today in Chiapas, tepache is made for both home and commercial use, although the quantity produced has been slowing due to […]

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Soconusco Archaeological Museum
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Soconusco Archaeological Museum

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Soconusco Archaeological Museum

The name of this museum is that it is within the region called “Soconusco”, located in an interior portion of the Old Municipal Palace of Tapachula, built around 1925, the bulk of its museology is for materials recovered in Izapa, archaeological site near Tapachula. Over five rooms invites you various aspects of pre-Hispanic times. Includes aspects of other cultures in the region, as the very early Chantuto, Preclassic period Olmec ruins, several trails Cacahoatán, sample Plumbate between the Classic and Postclassic and finally corresponding to the presence and dominance Mexican in the area during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Spanish rule, independence and further development of Soconusco, are also addressed in another room. […]

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Lagos de Colon paradise to discover
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Lagos de Colon paradise to discover

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Lagos de Colon paradise to discover

It is a little paradise, combining natural beauty with archaeological remains, with 44 colored lakes low and deep are interconnected, six rivers and two waterfalls, a wide variety of wildlife and trees, this site of interest highly transparent in its waters, has an area of three hundred fifty acres. The colors of the lakes are the result of the nuances of the colors green and blue.

Among the lakes include the Herons, La Ceiba, Forest Blue, Water Ink, Ixshal and Vista Hermosa, the most important being the so-called “Crystal”, forming together a lush paradise. It’s beauty is enhanced by the proximity of a small ceremonial center the Maya erected: The Lagartero, with its 6 pyramids, […]

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Archaeological Tenam Puente
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Archaeological Tenam Puente

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Archaeological Tenam Puente

Built on a mountain overlooking the plains Comitan that extends to the Lagos de Montebello. The territorial extension of this prehistoric settlement has been calculated in two square kilometers, on which several buildings were built of such civic, religious and housing, which represent the transition from the classical to classic post (900 to 1200 DC). The presence of three ball games, and the Acropolis with its structures four and seven. The buildings were built with blocks of stone perfectly drawn.

With its strategic location Tenam Puente allowed its people to exercise control over the trade route linking the highlands of Chiapas and Guatemala with the central depression of Chiapas. T he ceramic collections from […]

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Aluxes Ecopark Palenque
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Aluxes Ecopark Palenque

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Aluxes Ecopark Palenque

Legend has it that the Mayan priests, called Jímen, with his wisdom and power to create Aluxes, magical beings in human form, like an elf, elves are eternally young, happy and playful that can communicate with any animal of the forest , tend the fields and forests to protect wildlife, but can understand the language of men, do not pronounce it because it should not be a relationship between humans and elves can only be seen by the innocent eyes of children and the wise eyes of the elderly.

The Mayan culture, the rainforest and wildlife are the elements that inspired the name […]

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