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Centro de Interpretación Uyotot
The reserve’s visitor center, the Centro de Interpretación Uyotot-Ja, or ‘Casa de Agua, ’ is 13km along the road to the town of Jonuta, beside the broad, winding Río Grijalva. Here a 20m-high observation tower overlooks the awesome confluence of the Grijalva, the Usumacinta and a t
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Jardín de la Bombilla
In this tropically abundant park spreading east of Avenida Insurgentes, paths encircle the Monumento a Álvaro Obregón , a monolithic shrine to the post-revolutionary Mexican president. The monument was built to house the revolutionary general’s arm, lost in the 1915 Battle of Celay
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Campamento Tortuguero Playa de Colola
An estimated 70% of the world’s population of green sea turtles, along with olive ridley and leatherback turtles, lay their eggs on the long flat sands of Playa Colola (Km 160). This center monitors the beach, protects the eggs and releases hatchlings. Theres rustic camping and dor
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Salto de Eyipantla
Twelve kilometers southeast of San Andrés, a 244-step staircase leads down to the spectacular Salto de Eyipantla, a 50m-high, 40m-wide waterfall. To avoid the steps (and a soaking), you can also enjoy it from a mirador (lookout). Part of Mel Gibson’s movie Apocalypto was filmed her
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Villa del Oeste
Many of the big-screen cowboys have swaggered through this film set. Today, the set is a souvenir-drenched theme park with gunslingers shooting it out at weekends (2:30pm and 4:30pm on Saturday, 1:30pm, 3:30pm and 5:30pm Sunday), while the rest of the week it’s empty. Either way, i
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Cascada de Basaseachi
Few natural sites in Mexico boast the exquisitely pristine beauty of the country’s highest full-time waterfalls, Cascada de Basaseachi, where a plume of water tumbles 246m to pools below where you can swim. Basaseachi is 140km northwest of Creel and takes a full day to visit from t
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Uxmal Ruins
Pronounced oosh-mahl, Uxmal is one impressive set of ruins, easily ranking among the top Maya archaeological sites. It is a large site with some fascinating structures in good condition and bearing a riot of ornamentation. Adding to its appeal is Uxmal’s setting in the hilly Puuc r
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Iglesia de La Compañía
Finely carved facades adorn the colonial Iglesia de La Compañía.
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Plaza de Armas
The Plaza de Armas, on the south side of the cathedral, is a sweet place to rest and absorb the surrounding history. Frequent free concerts take place on the attractive art nouveau bandstand.
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Las Pozas
Xilitla’s famous attraction is Las Pozas, a bizarre but beautiful linked series of concrete temples, pagodas, bridges, pavilions, sculptures and spiral stairways built adjacent to an idyllic series of waterfalls. Though the project was never completed – the jungle encroaches on the
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Casa de los Once Patios
This cool, rambling colonial edifice was built as a Dominican convent in the 1740s. (Before that, the site held one of Mexico’s first hospitals, founded by Vasco de Quiroga.) Today it houses small artesanías (handicrafts) shops, each specializing in a particular regional craft. Ren
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Centro Cultural Mexiquense
This large cultural center, 4.5km west of the city center, houses three good museums (which all keep the same hours). It’s no must-see, but still a worthwhile diversion for visitors interested in local arts and crafts, local archaeology and modern art.From downtown you can take a c
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Mercado Abelardo Rodríguez
The Mercado Abelardo Rodríguez , northeast of the Zócalo, became a canvas for a group of young international artists under the tutelage of Diego Rivera in the 1930s. Some of the most exuberant works, created by the American Greenwood sisters, cover the stairwell leading up to the c
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Plaza de la Liberación
East of the cathedral, this plaza was a 1980s urban planner’s dream project – two whole blocks of colonial buildings were eviscerated to make way for this concrete slab. On the north side of the plaza, next to the Museo Regional de Guadalajara, is the Palacio Legislativo . Distingu
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Secretaría de Educación Pública
The two front courtyards (on the opposite side of the building from the entrance off Plaza Santo Domingo) here are lined with 120 fresco panels painted by Diego Rivera in the 1920s. Together they form a tableau of ‘the very life of the people,’ in the artist’s words. Each courtya
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El Castillo Real
Down the same intimidating road that leads to Punta Molas, are the large Mayan ruins known as El Castillo Real (The Royal Castle). The archaeological site, as well as the Aguada Grande ruins a few kilometers hike away, are both quite far gone, their significance having blown off in
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Museo Jumex
Built to house one of Latin Americas leading contemporary art collections. Temporary exhibits draw on a collection of around 2600 pieces from renowned Mexican and international artists such as Gabriel Orozco, Francis Alys and Warhol. Ejército Defensa buses departing from metro Chap
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Sótano de las Golondrinas
The extraordinary limestone sinkhole, known as Swallows’ Cave (or ‘Swallows Basement’), is located near Aquismón. One of the world’s deepest pits at over 500m (over 370m freefall), it’s known for the thousands of vencejos (white-collared swifts) that nest in the caves. At dawn, flo
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Parque Juárez
Xalapas centrally located main square feels like a terrace, with its south side overlooking the valley below and the snowcapped cone of Pico de Orizaba beckoning in the distance. Greener and better kept than most other plazas in Mexico, you’ll find monkey puzzle trees and manicured
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Museo Mural Diego Rivera
Home to one of Diego Rivera’s most famous works, Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central (Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central), a 15m-long mural painted in 1947. Rivera imagined many of the figures who walked in the city from colonial times onward, among t
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