Tehuacán Valley

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Places to visit in Tehuacán Valley 45

45 places with their own page, grouped by kind.

Villages · 32 Towns · 8 Landmarks and museums · 2 Cities · 1 Mountains · 1 Nature reserves · 1

Villages

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  Alhuaca · Village · Puebla
  Mountain village of Vicente Guerrero, "where there is water", at 2,663 m below Cerro Zacatepec, 9 km from Santa María del Monte.
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  Ameyalco · Village · Puebla
  Community in the municipality of Ajalpan, up in the mountains toward the Veracruz line, whose Nahuatl name means "at the spring".
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  Azumbilla · Village · Puebla
  The largest town in the municipality of Nicolás Bravo, between Tehuacán and the Veracruz line, on the Orizaba–Tehuacán road.
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  Calipan · Village · Puebla
  Sugar town in the municipality of Coxcatlán, in the southern Tehuacán valley; its mill was the first in Mexico certified for organic sugar.
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  Caltepec · Village · Puebla
  Small seat in the Sierra de Zapotitlán south of Tehuacán, with a 16th-century Assumption parish and an Easter fiesta with jaripeo and horse races.
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  Chichicapa · Village · Puebla
  Nahua community in the Sierra Negra at 2,486 m in the municipality of Ajalpan, cool all year; its name means "bitter river".
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  Cuitzala · Village · Puebla
  Nahua community at about 2,270 m in the cloud forest of the Coyomeapan mountains, growing native maize, peaches, criollo avocados and granadilla.
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  Morelos Cañada · Village · Puebla
  Municipal seat at 2,286 m on Puebla's eastern plain, once Tepectlán; San José feast on 19 March and tomatoes as its big crop.
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  San Antonio Texcala · Village · Puebla
  Zapotitlán subdivision in the Tehuacán Valley, close to salt works and onyx quarries.
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  San Bartolo Teontepec · Village · Puebla
  Village of Tepanco de López, "on the hill of god", the municipality's largest, at the northern tip of the Tehuacán valley.
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  San Gabriel Tetzoyocan · Village · Puebla
  "Place full of tezontle": a Yehualtepec village with an 18th-century church to the archangel Gabriel, amid rocky plains and low hills.
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  San José Axuxco · Village · Puebla
  A sugar-cane village in San José Miahuatlán with a salt spring called Petlanco and Tepetroja hill, about 30 km from Tehuacán.
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  San José Ixtapa · Village · Puebla
  Village in the municipality of Cañada Morelos, "on the salt", in the uplands between the Tehuacán valley and the Veracruz line.
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  San Juan Atzingo · Village · Puebla
  Village in the municipality of San Gabriel Chilac, "at the little water", where dancers welcome visitors at the entrance to town.
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  San Juan Raya · Village · Puebla
  Popoloca village in Zapotitlán on the Oaxaca line, famous for Cretaceous marine fossils, dinosaur tracks and a community-run fossil museum.
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  San Luis Temalacayuca · Village · Puebla
  Popoloca village in the north-western Tehuacán valley, "place full of spindle whorls", with a church of San Luis Obispo from around 1604.
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  San Marcos Tlacoyalco · Village · Puebla
  The largest community in Tlacotepec de Benito Juárez, home to over 10,000 people on the semi-arid uplands between Tehuacán and Palmar de Bravo.
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  San Martín Atexcal · Village · Puebla
  Village in southern Puebla by the Sierra de Zapotitlán; Early Cretaceous dinosaur tracks are preserved on the Magdalena River.
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  San Miguel Zozutla · Village · Puebla
  The "greenish place" of Yehualtepec, a village of 5,000 on irrigated plains, home ground of wool blankets, ixtle and onyx chess sets.
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  San Pablo Tepetzingo · Village · Puebla
  Village in the municipality of Tehuacán, "on the little hill", about 7 km from the city, in the arid valley known as the cradle of maize.
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  San Sebastián Zinacatepec · Village · Puebla
  Seat of the "hill of the bats" in the Tehuacán Valley, with semi-thermal springs, the Iglesia del Cerrito and coletho goat stew.
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  Santa Ana Teloxtoc · Village · Puebla
  Village in the municipality of Tehuacán, "in the stone cave", where the Salitrillo ravine holds Cretaceous dinosaur tracks.
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  Santa María Coyomeapan · Village · Puebla
  Nahua mountain seat southeast of Tehuacán, 2,027 m up among misty forests, with up to 4,100 mm of rain and wool and palm weaving.
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  Santa María la Alta · Village · Puebla
  Tlacotepec village where palm hats are woven, with a carnival of two rival barrios and the Immaculate Conception feast on 8 December.
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  Santiago Miahuatlán · Village · Puebla
  Town in the Tehuacán Valley known for turkey mole made with the sweet-hot Miahuatlán chile and its fair on the first Sunday of August.
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  Tepanco de López · Village · Puebla
  Village between the Tehuacán and Tecamachalco valleys with an 18th-century Baroque church of San Juan Bautista and four posa chapels.
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  Tepazolco · Village · Puebla
  Village of Tlacotepec de Benito Juárez, "place of nests", on the semi-arid plateau between Tecamachalco and Tehuacán.
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  Tepeyoloc · Village · Puebla
  Community of Coxcatlán where the Sierra Negra begins, between pine-oak forest and valley scrub, growing avocados, peaches and passion fruit.
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  Tlacotepec de Benito Juárez · Village · Puebla
  Shrine of the Señor del Calvario: every July thousands of pilgrims walk here from Puebla and Veracruz to this town "halfway up the hill".
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  Tlacotepec de Porfirio Díaz · Village · Puebla
  The municipal seat farthest from Puebla city: a Nahua and Mazatec town at 300 m, amid rainforest in one of Mexico's rainiest areas.
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  Xitlama · Village · Puebla
  Auxiliary town of Zoquitlán in the Sierra Negra, at about 1,850 m, the municipality's largest settlement; its name means "on the grassy slopes".
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  Zoquitlán · Village · Puebla
  "In the mud": Nahua town of the Sierra Negra at 2,149 m, with a 16th-century San Pablo church, carved wooden spoons and fried pochocuil grubs.

Towns

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  Ajalpan · Town · Puebla
  Town in the Tehuacán valley at the foot of the Sierra Negra, known for its red clay roof tiles and the Señor de Coculco fair in May.
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  Altepexi · Town · Puebla
  Nahua town in the Tehuacán valley by the Tehuacán River, with a parish church of San Francisco; "water that falls from the hill".
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  Chapulco · Town · Puebla
  Former Popoloca lordship on the slope that closes the Tehuacán valley to the east, by Cerro Chapoltzin and the Veracruz line.
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  Coxcatlán · Town · Puebla
  Town at the southern end of the Tehuacán valley by Oaxaca, whose caves held some of the oldest domesticated maize remains.
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  Magdalena Cuayucatepec · Town · Puebla
  The second-largest community in Tehuacán municipality, a sub-municipality at 1,733 m northwest of the city; 10,889 people in 2020.
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  San Gabriel Chilac · Town · Puebla
  Nahuatl-speaking town near Tehuacán, famous for its Day of the Dead, the mikilhuitl, with reed shelters built in the cemetery.
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  San José Miahuatlán · Town · Puebla
  Seat of a sugar-cane municipality in southern Puebla, 'place of abundant maize ears', 22 km from Tehuacán and beside motorway 135D.
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  Zapotitlán Salinas · Town · Puebla
  Seat of Zapotitlán in the cactus valley of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán reserve: botanical garden, old salt pans and the Popoloca ruins of Cuthá.

Landmarks and museums

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  Museo del Valle de Tehuacán · Landmark · Puebla
  INAH museum in Tehuacán's former Carmelite convent, devoted to the story of maize and the finds from the Coxcatlán caves.
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  Tehuacán el Viejo (Ndachjian) · Landmark · Puebla
  Old Popoloca capital on a mesa 6 km from Tehuacán, with 644 recorded structures and the first temple to Xipe Tótec ever found in Mexico.

Cities

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  Tehuacán · City · Puebla
  Puebla's second city, in the valley where some of the oldest domesticated maize was found; known for its springs and mineral water.

Mountains

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  Otzelotzi · Mountain · Puebla
  Extinct 3,087 m volcano northeast of Tehuacán whose lava dammed the three San Bernardino lakes, with boats and fishing below.

Nature reserves

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  Reserva de la Biosfera Tehuacán-Cuicatlán · Nature reserve · Puebla
  Reserve of almost half a million hectares across Puebla and Oaxaca, a mixed UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2018, with forests of columnar cacti and traces of maize domestication.

Top tours in Tehuacán Valley

San Miguel Zozutla Africam Safari Zoo Admission with Transportation ★ 4.8 (87) 5 h From US$35

San Miguel Zozutla Iztaccihuatl Volcano Hiking Tour from Puebla ★ 5.0 (81) 8–9 h From US$179

San Miguel Zozutla Cholula tour from Puebla ★ 4.9 (81) 3–4 h From US$82

San Miguel Zozutla Town walking tour of the city ★ 4.9 (80) 2–3 h From US$36

San Miguel Zozutla Cholula Magical Town on a Traditional Tram from Puebla in Spanish ★ 4.4 (67) 5 h From US$14

Tehuacán From Puebla: Private Tour to Tehuacán Biosphere Reserve + mezcal 9 h From US$251

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