Corpus Christi an artistic dance of tigers, snakes and bees

Along time ago Luciano Toala was taking a walk through the town of Suchiapa when suddenly he heard some music. He wanted to know where it was coming from so he followed the sound until he got to a place inside a tree where he found a honeycomb where the bees were dancing around, he couldn’t believe his eyes so he run and got the people from the village, when everyone came back they found a deer a snake and a tiger worshiping the honeycomb.

Now a day Suchiapa celebrates this event and it has become a tradition that the people from the town celebrate year after year.

The dance started in the prehispanic times, it’s interpreted […]

Tascalate drink

A corn, cacao, achiote, pine nuts and cinnamon made traditional drink of the state of Chiapas, red dust is ideal pre-Hispanic heritage of our ancestors, which is ideal for cooling off in the hot season.

Each of the ingredients are roasted and grounded, resulting in a reddish powder which gives the characteristic color of this drink.

The great science prepare not only need to mix it with water or milk, if you like you can add sugar, ice and ready to put the powder, it does not dissolve completely but quickly settles, the idea is moving to become pregnant while taking.

Currently, this drink is prepared and packaged for export to other regions.

You should know that as pozol, tascalate […]

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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