Totonacapan

Pueblos Mágicos in Totonacapan

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Veracruz Papantla

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Places to visit in Totonacapan 25

25 places with their own page, grouped by kind.

Villages · 13 Towns · 6 Beaches · 2 Archaeological sites · 2 Cities · 1 Landmarks and museums · 1

Villages

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  Ayotuxtla · Village · Veracruz
  Texcatepec's largest Otomí community, in the mountains of northern Veracruz; its Nahuatl name means place of armadillos, and it holds the Godeni in spring.
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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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  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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  Cerro Grande · Village · Veracruz
  Farming village in the Totonac highlands, 9 km northeast of Filomeno Mata on state road 127 at about 320 m.
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  Corralillos · Village · Veracruz
  A Totonac-country village in Coatzintla, a quarter hour from Poza Rica, with an unexcavated archaeological site, a community museum and river pools.
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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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  El Volador · Village · Veracruz
  Totonac village in Papantla on the Totonacapan coastal plain, with a community school for child voladores and an Assumption fiesta on 15 August.
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  General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río · Village · Veracruz
  Tihuatlán community on Highway 130, eight minutes from Poza Rica, named after President Lázaro Cárdenas.
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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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  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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  Progreso de Zaragoza · Village · Veracruz
  Seat of Coahuitlán since 1897, on the banks of the Necaxa river, with a suspension footbridge; about 8 km from Coyutla.
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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.

Towns

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  Coxquihui · Town · Zozocolco
  A Totonac town just north of Zozocolco, known for crafts like carved dance masks, wax candles and embroidered clothing.
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  Coyutla · Town · Zozocolco
  A Totonac town in the Sierra de Papantla known for embroidered quechquémitls, carved masks and voladores at its fiestas.
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  Gutiérrez Zamora · Town · Papantla
  A riverside town on the way to Tecolutla, home to some of the oldest vanilla-curing businesses in the region.
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  Huayacocotla · Town · Veracruz
  A cool pine-forest town at about 2,150 m on Veracruz's western tip, with a 17th-century Augustinian church and a famous community radio.
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  Tecolutla · Town · Papantla
  Papantla's nearest beach town, at a river mouth on the Gulf, with a sea turtle camp and boat trips into the mangroves.
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  Tihuatlán · Town · Veracruz
  A town of about 15,000 next to Poza Rica, known as Veracruz's furniture capital and the gateway between the Huasteca and Totonac lands.

Beaches

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  Barra de Cazones · Beach · Papantla
  A small beach village where the Cazones River meets the Gulf, with quiet beaches, mangrove boat rides and seafood.
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  Costa Esmeralda · Beach · Papantla
  More than 50 km of calm Gulf beaches between Tecolutla and Nautla, with fine sand, seafood and mangrove boat trips.

Archaeological sites

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  Cuyuxquihui · Archaeological site · Papantla
  A small Totonac city founded as El Tajín declined, with a pyramid at the edge of a cliff and a large ball court.
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  El Tajín · Archaeological site · Papantla
  The great ancient city of the Gulf coast, with the Pyramid of the Niches, many ball courts and voladores at the gate.

Cities

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  Poza Rica de Hidalgo · City · Veracruz
  Northern Veracruz's oil city, born of a 1930 gusher, with a Pablo O'Higgins mural and El Tajín 15 km away.

Landmarks and museums

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  Cristo Redentor · Landmark · Veracruz
  A concrete Christ more than 30 m tall on a hill above Tihuatlán, inaugurated in 2007 and modelled on the statue in Rio de Janeiro.

Top tours in Totonacapan

Papantla Tajín and Papantla Tour from Veracruz or Boca del Río by Highway ★ 5.0 (23) 12 h 30 min From US$112

Papantla Tajin And Papantla Tour From Veracruz Or Boca Del Rio. Fast way ★ 5.0 (19) 10–12 h From US$127

Huayacocotla Zacatlán Guided Tour walking through the Center ★ 5.0 (2) 2 h 30 min From US$8

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