Sierra Norte de Puebla

Pueblos Mágicos in Sierra Norte de Puebla

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Puebla Cuetzalan

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Puebla Zacatlán

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Puebla Teziutlán

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Puebla Chignahuapan

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Puebla Huauchinango

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Puebla Xicotepec

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Puebla Tlatlauquitepec

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Puebla Tetela de Ocampo

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Puebla Pahuatlán

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Places to visit in Sierra Norte de Puebla 89

89 places with their own page, grouped by kind.

Villages · 81 Towns · 6 Waterfalls · 2

Villages

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  Acoculco · Village · Puebla
  Chignahuapan village at 2,767 m that names the Acoculco caldera, a geothermal zone where the CFE has drilled exploration wells.
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  Acolihuia · Village · Puebla
  A Chignahuapan hamlet at 2,403 m with its bridge and 596 residents, 11 km from the town, on the sierra's cool high plateau.
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  Adolfo Moreno · Village · Veracruz
  Mountain village at 2,140 m, 7 km south of Altotonga, founded in 1941 and named after a Veracruz revolutionary and lawyer.
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  Ahuacatlán · Village · Puebla
  Nahua village of Zacapoaxtla, "where avocados abound", at 2,075 m amid forest and mist, 11 km from town on the road to Tlatlauquitepec.
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  Ahuacatlán · Village · Puebla
  Huauchinango village where 83% speak an Indigenous language, at 1,739 m in the rainy sierra and 12 km by road from the municipal seat.
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  Ahuazotepec · Village · Puebla
  Mountain town on the Hidalgo line, "on the hill of the old oaks", known as the cradle of truckers, with a transport fair at Holy Week.
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  Ahuehuetes · Village · Puebla
  Village of Yaonáhuac in the north-eastern sierra, about 4 km from Tlatlauquitepec, named for the ahuehuete tree that Cortés is said to have planted.
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  Ameluca · Village · Puebla
  Pantepec village at just 162 m, in the hot, rainy lowlands of northern Puebla, close to Veracruz and the Pantepec River.
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  Amixtlán · Village · Puebla
  Sierra Norte municipal seat strung along a narrow ridge among coffee groves; San José church and voladores at its 19 March feast.
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  Apapantilla · Village · Puebla
  Village of Jalpan in the lowlands of the Sierra Norte at about 260 m, between Hidalgo and Veracruz; its name means "bottom of the river".
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  Atlequizayan · Village · Puebla
  Totonac seat of one of Puebla's smallest municipalities, set among Sierra Norte coffee groves, with a San Miguel parish and the Zempoala river close by.
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  Atzingo · Village · Puebla
  Auxiliary town of Zacatlán, "at the little water", grown around a spring that was a stop for muleteers between Zacatlán and Huauchinango.
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  Ayotoxco de Guerrero · Village · Puebla
  "Place of armadillos": a Totonac-rooted seat at 303 m on the warm slope of the Sierra Norte, with an October maize and Saint Francis fair.
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  Benito Juárez · Village · Puebla
  Hamlet of Chiconcuautla in the Sierra Norte, about 13 km from Huauchinango, in an Otomí and Nahua municipality of forests and coffee.
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  Beristáin · Village · Puebla
  Village in Ahuazotepec on the edge of the Sierra Norte, by the Hidalgo line near Acaxochitlán, with a Saint Joseph fair from 19 to 22 March.
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  Bienvenido · Village · Puebla
  Seat of the municipality of Hermenegildo Galeana in Puebla's Sierra Norte, at about 780 m among green hills.
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  Buenos Aires · Village · Puebla
  Village of Jopala, Totonac country, at 565 m in the Sierra Norte; named for its patroness, Our Lady of Good Air. Clay, coffee and rain.
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  Camocuautla · Village · Puebla
  "In the forest of sweet potatoes": Totonac seat of a municipality of only 16 km², at 708 m in the Sierra Norte, among mist, rain and forest.
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  Camotepec · Village · Puebla
  Zacatlán junta auxiliar at 2,478 m and gateway to the Valle de Piedras Encimadas; a pueblo by decree since 2018, with a Guadalupe parish.
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  Caxhuacan · Village · Puebla
  Totonac village in the Sierra Norte at about 500 m, with 3,500 mm of rain a year; voladores and quetzal dancers at its 4 October fiesta.
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  Chachahuantla · Village · Puebla
  Nahua village in the Sierra Norte, in Naupan near Huauchinango; its name means "where quartz crystals abound".
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  Chicahuaxtla · Village · Puebla
  Tlaola's second-largest village, 2 km from the seat, in a mountain valley hit by a flooded river and landslide when Hurricane Earl's remnants struck in 2016.
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  Chiconcuautla · Village · Puebla
  Village of Otomí origin in the Sierra Norte between Zacatlán and Huauchinango; in 1911 a Maderista base with a workshop minting coins.
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  Chicontla · Village · Puebla
  Jopala's largest community, in the hot Necaxa River valley: a trading hub and one of the few homes of Upper Necaxa Totonac.
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  Chila de Juárez · Village · Puebla
  Village in the municipality of Honey by the Hidalgo line, 7 km from Pahuatlán; the municipality is named after an English paint maker.
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  Cinco de Mayo · Village · Puebla
  Seat of Xochiapulco, the town named after the 1862 battle in honour of the 26 local men who fought in it.
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  Coahuixco · Village · Puebla
  Highland village of Chignautla, 2.5 km from the seat and 8 km from Teziutlán, between misty forest and the old Los Humeros volcanic caldera.
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  Cuacuila · Village · Puebla
  Nahua community at the southern tip of the municipality of Zacatlán, at 2,250 m among pine-oak forest, near Tetela de Ocampo.
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  Dimas López · Village · Puebla
  Totonac-country hamlet of Olintla beside the Ajajalpan river, at 512 m and just 6 km from Zozocolco across the Veracruz line.
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  Honey · Village · Puebla
  Sierra Norte seat on the Hidalgo line, named after the Englishman Richard Honey; the Salto de la Cumbre waterfall and La Trinidad woods are close by.
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  Huahuaxtla · Village · Puebla
  The only sub-municipality of Xochitlán de Vicente Suárez, a Nahua village in the Sierra Norte at 1,556 m with rain nearly all year.
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  Ixtepec · Village · Puebla
  Totonac village in the Sierra Norte, "on the face of the hill", seat of one of Puebla's smallest municipalities, 13 km from Cuetzalan.
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  Jicolapa · Village · Puebla
  Highland village five minutes from Zacatlán, devoted to the Señor de Jicolapa, an image said to have appeared on its chapel wall, with a Passion play.
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  Jopala · Village · Puebla
  Totonac-speaking seat in Puebla's Sierra Norte: the Assumption parish and an 11-day August fair with negritos, quetzales and voladores.
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  La Lagunilla · Village · Puebla
  Hamlet of Tlacuilotepec at 765 m, nearly 600 m below its municipal seat, among pastures and streams draining to the Pantepec.
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  Las Colonias de Hidalgo · Village · Puebla
  Huauchinango locality founded in 1942, with over 3,000 people, in the Sierra Norte near the dams of the Necaxa system.
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  Mazatepec · Village · Puebla
  Coffee village at 625 m in Tlatlauquitepec municipality, with the Cueva del Tigre cave, smoked chicken and the Apulco river hydro plant.
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  Mecapalapa · Village · Puebla
  Tepehua village in Pantepec, northern Puebla: a 18 March San José fair with cattle and clay jars for sale, and fish pascal.
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  Mexcalcuautla · Village · Puebla
  Teziutlán sub-municipality older than the city itself; its glyph, 'hill of the magueys', fills one quarter of Teziutlán's coat of arms.
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  Morelos · Village · Puebla
  Village in the municipality of Zaragoza, in the north-eastern sierra, named for José María Morelos, among farmland near Tlatlauquitepec.
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  Nanacatlán · Village · Puebla
  Village in the municipality of Zapotitlán de Méndez in the Sierra Norte, "place where nanacates abound", the wild mushrooms.
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  Nauzontla · Village · Puebla
  Village in the north-eastern sierra, "near four peaks", with a 16th-century parish church and a fiesta on 8 September with voladores and quetzal dancers.
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  Olintla · Village · Puebla
  Totonac municipal seat in the Sierra Norte, "place of earth movement" or "where there is rubber", in a very rainy valley by the Ajajalpan River.
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  Oyameles · Village · Puebla
  Mountain community at 2,841 m in southern Tlatlauquitepec, where the slope toward the Apulco begins; mutton barbecue and a Guadalupe feast.
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  Papatlazolco · Village · Puebla
  Huauchinango subdivision in the Sierra Norte, set between the Tenango and Nexapa reservoirs.
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  Rinconada · Village · Puebla
  A Chignahuapan village at 2,647 m in the municipality's southern corner, 13 km from Tlaxco, Tlaxcala; cold country of forests and looms.
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  San Bartolo Tutotepec · Village · Hidalgo
  Municipal seat in the Sierra de Tenango at 1,016 m, known for an Otomí carnival with 13 captains and the Señor de Chalma festivity.
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  San Cristóbal Xochimilpa · Village · Puebla
  A Nahua village in the northern sierra, in Zacatlán, with a wet climate and coffee plots; a dirt road links it to the inter-sierra highway.
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  San Esteban Cuautempan · Village · Puebla
  Seat of Cuautempan, "at the edge of the forest", in Puebla's Sierra Norte; a 16th-century church of San Esteban and a free municipality since 1895.
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  San Francisco · Village · Puebla
  Village of Xiutetelco, "pyramids where many herbs grow", about 9 km from Teziutlán, in the sierra that drops toward Veracruz.
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  San José · Village · Hidalgo
  Colonia San José, next to Tenango de Doria (0.4 km), in the Sierra de Tenango at 1,606 m with nearly 1,800 mm of rain a year.
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  San José · Village · Puebla
  Xiutetelco village 6 km from Teziutlán, living off farming, garment assembly work and fireworks, including the pyrotechnic bulls called toritos.
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  San José Acateno · Village · Puebla
  Seat of Acateno municipality in the low northern sierra: oranges, a fair on 19 March and rock paintings by the Tlacuilolapan river.
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  San Miguel Tenextatiloyan · Village · Puebla
  Pottery village in Zautla on highway 129, known as San Miguel de las Ollas, where red-clay pots and cazuelas have been made since pre-Hispanic times.
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  Santiago · Village · Puebla
  Xiutetelco village at 1,889 m near the Veracruz state line, where the Puebla highlands begin to drop toward the Gulf coast.
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  Sebastopol · Village · Puebla
  Rural village in Chignahuapan, about 7 km north of the Pueblo Mágico, in the cool uplands of the Sierra Norte.
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  Sosa · Village · Puebla
  Village of Chignautla, "place of nine rivers", about 7 km from Teziutlán, in the valley below the hill crowned by a giant Cristo Rey.
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  Tacopan · Village · Puebla
  Village of Atempan, "on the jarilla shrubs", the municipality's largest place, with its own troupe of the Quetzal Dance.
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  Tatoxcac · Village · Puebla
  "Throat of stone" beside Zacapoaxtla: a narrow cave, an 18th-century sanctuary and men who fought on 5 May 1862.
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  Tepango de Rodríguez · Village · Puebla
  Totonac village in the Sierra Norte, "high on the hill", renamed in 1935 after President Abelardo L. Rodríguez.
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  Teteles de Ávila Castillo · Village · Puebla
  Seat of Puebla's smallest municipality, in the highlands beside Tlatlauquitepec, with 23 pre-Hispanic mounds and a baroque church from 1736.
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  Tlacotepec · Village · Puebla
  "Halfway up the hill": an Ahuacatlán village at 1,339 m in Puebla's rainy sierra, among coffee plots, forest and Totonac and Nahua speech.
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  Tlacuilotepec · Village · Puebla
  Village in Puebla's northern sierra in the Huastec karst, with rain all year, about 10 km from the Pueblo Mágico of Pahuatlán.
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  Tlaltepango · Village · Puebla
  Village of Tlaola, "at the edge of the land", in the Sierra Norte, one of the rainiest parts of Puebla, in the Necaxa River basin.
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  Tlamanca · Village · Puebla
  Village of Zautla, "on the flattened ground", in the north-eastern sierra, in a municipality with a pottery tradition and a name about spinning.
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  Tlamanca de Hernández · Village · Puebla
  Nahua village of Tepetzintla founded in 1940 by the Hernández family, in the Sierra Norte near Tetela de Ocampo; Saint Raphael feast on 24 October.
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  Tlaola · Village · Puebla
  Sierra Norte seat 14 km from Huauchinango, where up to 2,600 mm of rain falls a year and quetzalines, voladores and huehues dance in August.
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  Tlapacoya · Village · Puebla
  Small Totonac and Nahua municipal seat in the Sierra Norte, "where the summit crumbles", with a 17th-century church of Señor Jesús.
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  Tlaxco · Village · Puebla
  Mountain seat of Tlaxco, Puebla (not the Tlaxcala town), at 870 m and 15 km from Xicotepec; its parish is San Agustín.
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  Tomatlán · Village · Puebla
  Zacatlán community at 2,141 m, about 4 km south of the apple town, known for its Puente del Gato bridge.
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  Tonalapa · Village · Puebla
  Village of Tetela de Ocampo in the heart of the Sierra Norte among big hills; rock climbing and rappelling on El Pilón.
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  Tuzamapan de Galeana · Village · Puebla
  Totonac village in the Sierra Norte, "river of the gophers", at about 530 m between Cuetzalan and the Veracruz line, with a church of the Transfiguration.
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  Valle Verde · Village · Hidalgo
  Sierra de Tenango village at 945 m in San Bartolo Tutotepec, which grew from 16 people in 1970 to 901 in 2020.
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  Venustiano Carranza · Village · Puebla
  Agua Fría, once Atlytztic: a hot lowland town at Puebla's far northern tip, 23 km from Poza Rica, with a Guadalupe fair every 12 December.
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  Xaltepuxtla · Village · Puebla
  Tlaola's most populous locality, in the rain-soaked Sierra Norte 8 km from Huauchinango; it lives from farming and growing flowers.
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  Xochinanacatlán · Village · Puebla
  Village of Tlaola, "where mushrooms abound", below 1,000 m in the Sierra Norte, near Xicotepec.
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  Yaonáhuac · Village · Puebla
  Nahua municipal seat in the north-eastern sierra next to Tlatlauquitepec, with a Friday market and a Santiago Apóstol feast every 25 July.
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  Zapotitlán de Méndez · Village · Puebla
  Totonac municipal seat on the Zempoala river, with a three-arched stone bridge and the Karmidas caves, open to visitors since 1923.
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  Zempoala · Village · Puebla
  "In twenty waters": a Chiconcuautla village at 1,494 m, named for its many wells and near the Zempoala River, in coffee-growing sierra.
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  Zihuateutla · Village · Puebla
  Coffee village in the Sierra Norte, on the slope dropping toward the Totonacapan, whose name recalls a "goddess woman".
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  Zongozotla · Village · Puebla
  Totonac hill town of the Sierra Norte, founded in 1709, with a Concepción church and an arcaded town hall; ixtle weaving and wild-blackberry wine.

Towns

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  Atempan · Town · Puebla
  Sierra Norte town next to Tlatlauquitepec, "on the riverbank", with a week-long Holy Week fair and orchards of apples and walnuts.
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  Ciudad de Lázaro Cárdenas · Town · Puebla
  Venustiano Carranza's largest town, born in the 1950s as the 'La Uno' oil pumping station and granted city status in 2016.
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  Huitzilan · Town · Puebla
  Nahua coffee town in the Sierra Norte, "place of hummingbirds", with an Assumption fair from 10 to 15 August and its coffee-sack race.
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  Metlaltoyuca · Town · Puebla
  Seat of Puebla's northernmost municipality, on a 326 m mesa next to Veracruz, with Totonac ruins a kilometre from town.
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  Villa Ávila Camacho (La Ceiba) · Town · Puebla
  Town of Xicotepec in the low, warm part of the sierra near Poza Rica, known as La Ceiba; it got its official name in 1954.
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  Zaragoza · Town · Puebla
  Sierra Norte town that grew around a 1905 railway station; founded by families from Zaragoza, Spain, it honours the Virgin of the Pillar.

Waterfalls

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  Cascada Monumental · Waterfall · Puebla
  Big drop of the Quetzalapan river between Zacatlán and Chignahuapan, by the Salto de Quetzalapan park: 365 steps, ziplines and an old power plant.
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  Cascadas la Morena · Waterfall · Puebla
  A 30-metre-plus waterfall in a forest eco-park outside Huauchinango, at km 191 of the Mexico–Tuxpan road, with guided hikes and camping.

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