Mixteca Poblana

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Places to visit in Mixteca Poblana 74

74 places with their own page, grouped by kind.

Villages · 63 Towns · 9 Cities · 1 Waterfalls · 1

Villages

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  Acaxtlahuacán de Albino Zertuche · Village · Puebla
  Village in Puebla's Mixteca on the Guerrero line, "field of reeds", seat of one of the state's least populated municipalities.
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  Acteopan · Village · Puebla
  San Marcos Acteopan, "temple of water", a pottery village between Atlixco and Cuautla with a 16th-century church and clay trees of life.
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  Ahuatlán · Village · Puebla
  Village in the eastern Matamoros valley, "place of oaks", with a 16th-century Augustinian church of San Andrés and a fiesta on 30 November.
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  Ahuehuetitla · Village · Puebla
  Village in Puebla's Mixteca "among the ahuehuete trees", at about 1,100 m, with a 17th-century church and honey sold abroad.
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  Ahuehuetzingo · Village · Puebla
  Warm village of Chietla, "place of the little ahuehuetes", at 1,046 m among farm fields, 9 km from town and close to Morelos.
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  Almolonga · Village · Puebla
  "Where water springs": a village of Tepexi de Rodríguez, also called Todos Santos, in the warm marble-and-fossil country of the Puebla Mixteca.
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  Alta Luz Cuatro Rayas · Village · Puebla
  Farming village of Ixcaquixtla by the Cuatro Rayas stream, in a Popoloca valley of palm mats, Jesuit haciendas and ash tamales.
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  Altavista · Village · Puebla
  Hamlet of Xochiltepec, "the flowering hill", in the hot country of the Matamoros valley, among dry forest and irrigated fields.
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  Amatitlán de Azueta · Village · Puebla
  A village "ringed by amate trees" 4 km from Acatlán de Osorio in the warm Mixteca; its surname honours José Azueta, defender of Veracruz in 1914.
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  Atenayuca · Village · Puebla
  "Place of walled-in water": seat of Juan N. Méndez, with a 16th-century Santa Isabel parish church amid scrubland and palm weaving.
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  Atzala · Village · Puebla
  Sugar-cane village in the Matamoros valley between the Nexapa and Atila rivers; its 16th-century church fell in the 2017 earthquake.
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  Axutla · Village · Puebla
  "Hot water": a Mixteca village at 880 m by the Mixteco River, with a 16th-century parish church and dry forest; site of an insurgent win.
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  Ayotla · Village · Puebla
  "Where squash abounds": the most populous town in Xochiltepec, almost half the municipality, between green plots and low-forest hills.
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  Ayoxuxtla · Village · Puebla
  Village in Puebla's Mixteca where Emiliano Zapata signed the Plan of Ayala in November 1911, with a museum devoted to the event.
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  Buenavista de Benito Juárez · Village · Puebla
  Warm Chietla village at 1,047 m in the low country of the Nexapa and Atila rivers, with dry forest, farmland and Morelos close by.
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  Casa Blanca (Cuyotliapa) · Village · Puebla
  Warm Tilapa village, also called Cuyotliapa, beside the Izúcar–Amayuca road and an old rail line in the Matamoros valley.
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  Chigmecatitlán · Village · Puebla
  Mixtec town on a mesa above the Atoyac where some 50 families weave tiny palm figures, some barely an inch tall.
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  Chila · Village · Puebla
  Chila de las Flores, a Mixteca seat on the Oaxaca line with a Dominican convent, tiled towers and palm hats, on the road to Huajuapan.
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  Chila de la Sal · Village · Puebla
  Village in the Mixteca Baja, in the Acatlán valley, with a very hot semi-dry climate and highs of 34 to 36 °C.
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  Chinantla · Village · Puebla
  Mixteca Poblana seat divided from Piaxtla by a single street, with a 16th-century church and Tecuanis and Doce Pares dances on 25 January.
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  Coatzingo · Village · Puebla
  Village in the Matamoros valley by the Atoyac and Huehuetlán rivers, at about 1,180 m; its name is read as "little snake of the spring".
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  El Rosario Micaltepec · Village · Puebla
  Farming community in Puebla's Mixteca, in Petlalcingo by the Oaxaca line; in 2008 it hosted the first gathering of Mixteca acrobats.
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  Escape de Lagunillas · Village · Puebla
  Chietla sub-municipality in the hot Matamoros valley at 1,021 m, living from farming and mining; its big fiesta is on 12 December.
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  Huatlatlauca · Village · Puebla
  Mixtec-Popoloca village south of Puebla with an Augustinian convent of the Three Kings (1536–1538), among ravines; "hill where the water runs red".
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  Ixcamilpa · Village · Puebla
  Village in south-western Puebla by the Guerrero line, "on the cotton field", site of one of the first land restitutions under the Plan of Ayala in 1912.
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  Jolalpan · Village · Puebla
  Hot-country municipal seat in Puebla's far southwest, a short hop from Morelos and Guerrero; its big feast is San Francisco on 4 October.
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  La Galarza · Village · Puebla
  A town at 1,400 m in the pass between Atlixco and Izúcar de Matamoros, where cavalry clashed in November 1847.
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  La Magdalena Tlatlauquitepec · Village · Puebla
  Puebla's least populated municipality, a single village below the Sierra del Tentzo with a 16th-century church and a fiesta on 22 July.
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  Molcaxac · Village · Puebla
  Municipal seat in Puebla's Mixteca, at 1,854 m, with the Asunción parish, the Sierra de Tentzo behind it and the Pececitos waterfall nearby.
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  Nativitas Cuautempan · Village · Puebla
  A small farming junta of Coyotepec in Puebla's Mixteca, at 1,880 m: rain-fed crops, palm mats and the birthplace of ex-governor Mario Marín.
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  Petlalcingo · Village · Puebla
  Municipal seat in Puebla's Lower Mixteca, at the foot of Cerro Petlalcingo, beside the Oaxaca line.
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  Piaxtla · Village · Puebla
  Mixteca village on the Pan-American highway, "long land", with a 16th-century church bearing a double-headed eagle and the legend of its Virgin of the Assumption.
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  San Andrés Mimiahuapan · Village · Puebla
  Molcaxac subdivision in Puebla's Mixteca, with the San Andrés church and about 760 residents.
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  San Bernardo · Village · Puebla
  Acatlán village in the Mixteca, among dry forest and hills, that honours the Virgin of Guadalupe on 12 January, once the harvest is in.
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  San Felipe Ayutla · Village · Puebla
  Sugar-cane village of Izúcar de Matamoros, at 1,197 metres in the hot Nexapa River valley; 3,459 people in 2020.
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  San Felipe Otlaltepec · Village · Puebla
  "On the hill of reeds": a Tepexi de Rodríguez village in Puebla's Mixteca, under skies dark enough to photograph the Milky Way.
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  San Jerónimo Xayacatlán · Village · Puebla
  Mixtec village on the Puebla–Oaxaca border in the Acatlán valley, whose Nahuatl name may mean "place of masks".
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  San Juan Pilcaya · Village · Puebla
  Hot-country village of Chiautla, in the Mixteca, close to the epicenter of the September 19, 2017 earthquake, which wrecked 85% of its buildings.
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  San Juan Raboso · Village · Puebla
  Sugar-cane village south of Izúcar de Matamoros, grown from a hacienda founded in 1591 and bought by William Jenkins in 1935.
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  San Martín Totoltepec · Village · Puebla
  "On the hill of the birds": seat of one of Puebla's smallest municipalities, 7 km² of dry forest and clay pitchers next to Izúcar.
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  San Mateo Zoyamazalco · Village · Puebla
  "Where the palms fork": a village of 599 people in Coyotepec, in Puebla's dry south, where palm and zoyate are woven into sleeping mats.
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  San Pablo Anicano · Village · Puebla
  Village in Puebla's Mixteca near Acatlán, with a 16th-century church and the Señor de la Paz fair, known for Olinalá lacquered gourds.
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  San Pedro Yeloixtlahuaca · Village · Puebla
  Mixteca municipal seat in the Acatlán valley next to Oaxaca, with a 16th-century church of Saint Peter; its name refers to a plain of tobacco.
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  San Sebastián Puctla · Village · Puebla
  A sugarcane village of Izúcar de Matamoros, an early rice grower in the 1900s and known for keeping the remains of the outlaw Güilo Sosa.
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  San Vicente Boquerón · Village · Puebla
  Mixteca village north of Acatlán, founded in 1918 by Zapatista farmers who fought to split up the land of a hacienda.
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  San Vicente Coyotepec · Village · Puebla
  Village in the Acatlán River basin, "on the hill of the coyote", seat of a municipality of about 2,300 people next to Ixcaquixtla.
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  Santa Clara Huitziltepec · Village · Puebla
  "On the hill of black thorns": seat of Huitziltepec, with a 17th-century parish church, basketry and palm weaving amid dry scrub.
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  Santa Cruz Huitziltepec · Village · Puebla
  A Nahua auxiliary town of Molcaxac, "hill of the hummingbird", with huehue carnival, a council of elders, palm braid and an old railway station.
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  Tecomatlán · Village · Puebla
  Mixteca Baja town among dry forest and rivers, host every year of the national Espartaqueada sports and culture games.
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  Teopantlán · Village · Puebla
  Village south of the capital beyond the Sierra del Tentzo, "place of churches" or "in the temple of Tonatiuh", between the Atlixco and Matamoros valleys.
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  Teotlalco · Village · Puebla
  Village at Puebla's far south-western tip, bordered by Morelos to the north and west; its name means "in the desert" or "in the land of the god".
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  Tepapayeca · Village · Puebla
  A pre-Hispanic temple mound crowned by a Dominican chapel, plus a 16th-century ex-convent, in the irrigated lands of Tlapanalá.
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  Tepeojuma · Village · Puebla
  Town in the Matamoros valley, "beside the blue hill", with a warm climate and a fair for Padre Jesús on the first Friday of Lent.
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  Tepexco · Village · Puebla
  Hot-country town on the Morelos border, "on the face of the hill", with a 16th-century Dominican church of the Virgin of Ocotlán.
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  Texcalapa de Juárez · Village · Puebla
  "On the crag" village of Petlalcingo, in the Puebla Mixteca by Oaxaca, a warm land of apache palm, woven mats and goat barbacoa.
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  Tlancualpican · Village · Puebla
  "Near the hanging water": a hot-country town of Chiautla near the Morelos line, with almost 4,700 people and dry forest all around.
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  Tlapanalá · Village · Puebla
  Hot-country town near Atlixco, "in the broken ground", with a 16th-century church, the Ojo del Carbón spring pool and the Tepapayeca pyramid.
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  Totoltepec de Guerrero · Village · Puebla
  "On the hill of the birds": a Mixteca seat where thousands of pilgrims arrive on the second Friday of Lent to see the Señor de la Salud.
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  Tulcingo de Valle · Village · Puebla
  "In the little tule marsh": a Mixteca seat near Oaxaca and Guerrero, founded by Mixtecs and tied to US migration since the 1980s.
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  Xayacatlán de Bravo · Village · Puebla
  Mixtec village in Puebla's lower Mixteca, next to Acatlán, with a 17th-century church of Our Lady of Ocotlán and a home-centred Day of the Dead.
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  Xicotlán · Village · Puebla
  Small municipal seat in Puebla's Mixteca, "place of bumblebees", in very hot country by the Atoyac River, with a 16th-century church of Saint John the Baptist.
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  Xochitlán Todos Santos · Village · Puebla
  "Place among the flowers", an irrigated farming town south of Tecamachalco, with a 17th-century Assumption parish and old Jesuit haciendas.
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  Zacapala · Village · Puebla
  Mixteca village with Mixtec and Popoloca roots going back to the 9th century, a church to St John the Evangelist finished in 1700 and a fiesta on 27 December.

Towns

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  Acatlán de Osorio · Town · Puebla
  The "Pearl of the Mixteca": a pottery town in southern Puebla near Oaxaca, known for clay trees of life and the tecuanis dance.
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  Atencingo · Town · Puebla
  Sugar-cane town by Chietla with one of Mexico's biggest sugar mills, once owned by William Jenkins; the harvest runs November to May.
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  Chiautla de Tapia · Town · Puebla
  Town in Puebla's Mixteca near Morelos, once Chiautla de la Sal, with a 16th-century Augustinian convent and a regional fair on 12 December.
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  Chietla · Town · Puebla
  Sugar-cane town in the Matamoros valley by the Nexapa River and the Morelos line; its municipality includes the sugar town of Atencingo.
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  Huehuetlán el Chico · Town · Puebla
  Town in the Mixteca Baja by Morelos whose people signed the Plan of Ayala in 1911; a 16th-century codex turned up in its municipality in 2015.
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  San Juan Ixcaquixtla · Town · Puebla
  Town in Puebla's Mixteca with a 17th-century Churrigueresque church, an old granary, 18th-century mansions and the Night of Maize every 12 December.
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  Santa Inés Ahuatempan · Town · Puebla
  Town in Puebla's Mixteca founded in 1605, "at the edge of the oak wood", beside the Mesa Carbajal, where the Acatlán River rises.
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  Tehuitzingo · Town · Puebla
  Seat of one of Puebla's largest municipalities, in the Mixteca Baja, crossed by the Atoyac River, with a dam irrigating watermelon and papaya.
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  Tepexi de Rodríguez · Town · Puebla
  Town in Puebla's Mixteca with a Dominican former convent, the Tepexi el Viejo ruins and the Pie de Vaca fossil museum.

Cities

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  Izúcar de Matamoros · City · Puebla
  Sugar-cane city of Puebla's Mixteca, home of polychrome clay trees of life, with the former convent of Santo Domingo.

Waterfalls

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  Cascada de Los Pescaditos · Waterfall · Puebla
  A spring of the Zoquiac river spilling into five green pools in a cactus-lined canyon at Molcaxac, in Puebla's Mixteca.

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