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1. Tehuacan<br /> <br />Tehuacán is a privileged city location, is located in the part southwest of the State of Puebla, its average altitude is 1640 meters above sea level, features a temperature annual average between the eighteenth and twenty-second C. The climate is warm dry semi, with low rainfall in summer, as a municipality, its 12 auxiliary boards strengthens this privilege: Springs, archaeological sites, biotic wealth, among other wonders that make it up. As a Valley, it brings together and take advantage of the dynamics of other important municipalities carried out to the length and breadth of this territory. As a region is one of the poles with greatest potential for development of the southeast of Puebla and Oaxaca North, without disregarding its relationship with the State of Veracruz. <br />Location.<br /> <br />The municipality of Tehuacan is located in the Valley of the same name. This Valley is to the East by the sierra de Zongolica, which is part of the sierra mother East, and on the West by the sierra de Zapotitlán, which is part of the sierra mixteca. To the Northwest it borders Tecamachalco Valley and South with the Oaxacan cañada.<br /> <br />Tourist Attractions<br /> <br />*City Hall<br />Formerly known as quot;
la casa de los altosquot;
, was built in the year of 1804 by Mr. Don Apresa Sunday; and it was considered in the city as the first private building in two floors. Its construction was a challenge to the Franciscan friars because taparía them it the front of this religious site as well as the convent. The acquisition of this property took place the year of 1844, but it was until 1855 when they started to move some units of the Government. <br />*Museum of Mineralogy <br />This museum was opened to the public on July 31, 1998 and represents the dream of a done scientific reality and plunge us into one of colours and shapes to visit this museum. Its creator, winning man of great erudition of the Carnegie Medal awarded by the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, discoverer of two Mexican minerals the Malpimita and the Ojuelaita, humanist ahead for a long time opened us the door of the knowledge and awareness of the matter prima that surrounds us and forms: minerals.<br /> <br />*Former convent of San Francisco <br />The former convent of San Francisco was built in the year of 1592 formerly this temple had been erected in Calcahualco (old Tehuacán), but twenty years later had to move to the current site by an endemic problem of malaria made sick to the Friars and the plague of ants and Rattlesnake Adders that did not stop her progress. <br /> <br />Points Of Interest<br /> <br />*Cathedral<br />August 21, 1724, during the celebrations to commemorate the 203 years of the fall of Tenochtitlan, the first stone was laid and by the efforts of the inhabitants of the city, four years later was already completedits main doorway framed by the towers is of Renaissance style. More than 130 Angeles decorate the Church. Is located at 1 East and 2nd. Morelos. Religious building that dates from the 18th century, dedicated to the Virgin of the conception, characteristics of architecture Baroque, neoclassic and Herrera style in the interior. <br />*Temple and Ex Convento del Carmen<br />The Church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen is, like the convent, architecture Baroque mexicana, typical of the 18th century, has a single Tower and its plant is in the form of a Latin cross, and cruise this roofing with a dome set on a drum that due to its size supports Windows. The nave has a roof with corrido Vault supported by transverse arches, its axis not account with Windows and to the North is adjacent to the former convent, its structural proportions are very massive, denoting an architecture prepared to withstand strong earthquakes. <br />*Museum of the Valley of Tehuacan<br />Museum belonging to the National Institute of anthropology and history is a part of the former convent of el Carmen, above which is the House of the culture and the municipal library. In their showcases exhibits a collection of pre-Hispanic findings, such as pots, plates, necklaces of accounts, grinding stones and the remains of human skeletons. Its walls hang maps and prints that synthesize a history of almost ten thousand years. There we can learn of the relevance of old Coxcatlán, one of the Lordships that flourished towards the 15th century. We can also get an idea of the caves and archaeological sites in the Valley, in addition to several ruins of pyramids, which at present are visited almost exclusively by archaeologists. As the of Calipan, in the village of the same name, Sansuantzi in Coxcatlán, Cuta Zapotitlán, Tepetiopan, near Tepanco, and Tehuacán old only 5 kilometers from Tehuacan. <br /> <br />Food<br /> <br />*Muegano<br />The mixture of wheat flour, vegetable butter, milk, egg, piloncillo and honey, gave as a result, 78 years ago a nutritious cookie known today as muégano, same that taste like friends and strangers and has become the typical sweet of Tehuacánbuilding a regional tradition that has been transferred to at least four generations. In the beginning the development of the mueganos was 100% manual, although with the above desire to go out and raise production without setting aside the original recipe and meet the unsatisfied demand, wing modernization have been designed improvements have innovation with regard to the processing and presentation of this articles is characterized by its ingredients natural. <br /> <br />*Mole Of Hips<br /> The months of October and November are party to the more than 286 000 inhabitants of Tehuacán, as it revives an ancient tradition which has its origins in the colonial era: quot;
the Ritual Cultural and Festival ethnic of the Mole of hipsquot;
. The quot;
town of Indiansquot;
or quot;
corn cribquot;
, as Tehuacán, gathers thousands of families and friends environment at this festival that smells of incense and flower of the dead, and that combining past and present with the religious and pagan; and it refreshes the craving for a year by again taste a delicious dish of quot;
Mole of hipsquot;
. <br />*Donkey Bread<br />It prepares the bread or bun donkey whose specific feature is the name that is assigned by the peculiar form of consumption.<br />Major Products<br />*Chicken<br />*Eggs<br />*Soda<br />*Jeans<br />*Baby Shoes<br />*Garlic<br />*Onix<br />