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. […]

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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