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    Camada de San Francisco Tlacuilohcan en el Carnaval de Tlaxcala 2017

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    San Francisco Tlacuilohcan

    Village Yauhquemehcan, Tlaxcala Municipality of Yauhquemehcan

    Village in Yauhquemehcan at 2,436 m, "place of scribes" in Nahuatl, with a St Francis church from 1787 and its own carnival camada.

    From Chiautempan: 15 min by car (13 km by road) How to get there ↓

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    How to get to San Francisco Tlacuilohcan

    • From Chiautempan: about 15 min by road (~13 km)
    • Nearest airport: Puebla (PBC), 1 h 6 min by car to Tlaxco
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    About San Francisco Tlacuilohcan

    San Francisco Tlacuilohcan is a village in the municipality of Yauhquemehcan, in central Tlaxcala, at about 2,436 metres above sea level. Tlacuilohcan is a Nahuatl word translated as "place of scribes", and St Francis of Assisi is its patron. Spanish Wikipedia gives it 2,269 inhabitants in the 2020 census, so it is a small village a few kilometres from San Dionisio Yauhquemehcan, the municipal seat.

    Its main monument is the church of San Francisco on the village plaza. INAFED dates it to 1787 and describes a Latin-cross plan, a plastered facade, stone walls and vault about 80 centimetres thick, a round-arched door with a choir window and a single three-storey tower topped by a dome, lantern and a mortar cross. The parish house is attached to the church.

    Tlacuilohcan has its own huehue camada: the best-known photograph of the village on Wikimedia Commons shows it dancing at the 2017 Tlaxcala Carnival, in feathered headdresses of many colours and masks with Spanish features. In the municipality carnival runs on the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday; camadas dance French quadrilles in front of the municipal palace and each barrio holds its closing remate on Tuesday night. A travel columnist looking for camadas in 2019 toured the village along with Santa Cruz Tlaxcala and Rosario Ocotoxco, where huehues danced in public squares and in private homes.

    How to get to San Francisco Tlacuilohcan

    Drive from Chiautempan: 15 min, 13 km

    Tlacuilohcan is a few kilometres from Yauhquemehcan, which INAFED puts 16 km from Tlaxcala city by the Tlaxcala–Apizaco highway and the 136 from Apizaco to Yauhquemehcan. From the Tlaxcala bus terminal or from Apizaco take a colectivo or taxi to Yauhquemehcan and continue to the village. By car it is approx. 30 minutes from Tlaxco (about 25 km) and approx. 45 minutes from Puebla (about 40 km). If you come at carnival, ask at the municipal office for the camadas' schedule.

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    Best season
    Carnival: the Sunday to Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, with French quadrilles in front of Yauhquemehcan's municipal palace and a closing remate on Tuesday in each barrio. INAFED, Enciclopedia de los Municipios · checked Oct 2026

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    Visiting San Francisco Tlacuilohcan: what to see and do

    Church of San Francisco, from 1787, on the main plaza, with its three-storey tower.
    The village huehue camada at carnival, with feathered headdresses and masks.
    San Dionisio Yauhquemehcan, a few km away: parish from around 1670 with a gilded 18th-century altarpiece.
    Atlihuetzía, in the same municipality: a 16th-century Franciscan church with an open chapel.

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    San Francisco Tlacuilohcan shares the climate of Tlaxco, 25 km away. The best months to visit are January, February, November, and December.

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