Tehuacán

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Location:
The town of Tehuacan is located in the valley of the same name. This valley is the
east by the Sierra de Zongolica, which is part of the Sierra Madre Oriental, and on
the west by the mountains of Zapotitlan, which is part of the Sierra Mixteca. The
northwest adjacent to the valley and south Tecamachalco Glen Oaxaca.

Located in the southeastern part of the State of Puebla. Its geographic coordinates
are the parallels 18 ° 22 '6 and 18 ° 36' 12 north longitude and the meridian 97 ° 15
'24 and 97 ° 37' 24 west longitude. Bordered on the north Tepanco Lopez,
Santiago Miahuatlán, Vicente
Guerrero and Nicolas Bravo,
east to Vicente Guerrero, San
Antonio Cañada and Ajalpan
the south by San Gabriel
Chilac, Zapotitlán, San Anto
nio Texcala and Altepexi; and
west Zapotitlán, Atexcal San
Martín, Juan N. Tepanco
Mendez and Lopez.
City
Hall
Formerly known as "the
house of the high, was
built in the year 1804 by
mr. Don Apresa
Sunday, and was seen
in the city as the first
particular two-story
building.

Its construction was a

challenge to the Franciscans because it would clog the front of this religious site
and the convent. The acquisition of this property took place the year of 1844 but
was until 1855, when they began to move some government agencies.

The murals on the ground floor leading into the palace known as Tehuacan and 5
regions. Conducted in 1983 and 1984 by the Tehuacan originating Carpinteyro
brothers. And in the year 1989, the artist painted the mural Cuthbert Correa "agony
and hope," which is located insid e the municipal palace

INTERNAL WALL
Made in 1969 by master Fernando Ramirez Osorio. Plasma Tehuacán history,
from its origins to the commercial boom became undoubtedly an element
Tehuacan released as a crucial point for trade in the southeast. The various
characters also admire the history of independent Mexico.

Download the complete description of the Mural of City Hall (PDF)

Museum of Mineralogy
This museum was opened on July 31, 1998 and
represents a scientist's dream come true and
sinking into one of colors and shapes to visit this
museum. Its creator, a man of great erudition won
the Carnegie Medal awarded by the Smithsonian
Institute in Washington, discovered two minerals
Mexicans and Ojuelaita Malpimita, humanist greatly
advanced by the time we opened the door of
knowledge and awareness of the raw material and
forms around us: the minerals.

We passed on his knowledge and a catalog of them

in the museum, with pieces from around the world.
It is one of the most beautiful museums in the world
and unique in Latin America, with all parts listed with their chemical composition
giving us a thematic collection invites us to study and leads us to appreciate what
we have in Mexico, mining country.

This museum has a collection of minerals of approximately 10,000 pieces, of which

only 394 are found on a loan with the City and is currently on display at the
museum, as a result of the efforts of Dr. Miguel Romero, Mexican scientist
graduate Harvard University, who spent almost all their resources and more than
20 years of his life in being so vast collection.
The museum is divided into two parts: a display of rocks, fossils and meteorites,
and one which shows the great variety of Mexican minerals.
Ex Convento
de San
Francisco
The former convent of San
Francisco was built in 1592,
before this temple was erected in
Calcahualco (Tehuacán old), but
twenty years later had to move
the current place for a malaria-
endemic problem had been sick monks and the plague of ants and rattlesnakes
that she could not progress.

San Francisco Temple

The gateway has two shields above anagrams, on the left side has the letters JHS
and a cross between them and the right has the letters MA entwined with a crown
above them.

In the key of the arch is another cross above a skull and up on the wall there are
remains of wall paintings of angels playing flutes.

As we crossed the porch in the access aisle to the cloister you can see a niche that
was originally an access to the temple and is currently placed the Virgin of
Guadalupe. The interior garden is surrounded by 16 Tuscan columns and arches
supporting the building of two floors.

The corridors around the garden are decorated with a border in gray and white in
the Franciscan cord up and down and motifs of flowers and vine leaves in the
center.

In the upper floor there are several lounges and giving access to the stairs there is
a sink embedded in the wall and paintings depicting the cultivation of vines that are
supposed to have been the dining room in the next room is an oven that had be the
kitchen, followed by others with access to a small courtyard of the garden.

Front porch and lobby the east wall and back was the room known as De Profundis
where the monks gathered to pray and is now the sacristy of the church, on the
second floor were the cells of the friars.

San Francisco Temple which houses the Diocesan Shrine Parish is located in the
center of Tehuacan, is a single ship, measuring 60 meters long and 10 wide (inside
measurements) 18 meters high and 10 meters wide. The simple facade with a
single arch with stone arch panels and the height of the choir has a double window,
all painted in white.

It has a single tower of two bodies near a bell tower without bell left and right side
of the altar is a wooden altarpiece painted in white gold with a polygonal apse of
the church and ends in a shell-shaped niche in top.

It has shelves with sculptures of San Antonio de Padua, Santo Domingo, San
Agustín and San Ignacio and up above is San Felipe de Jesus, the first Mexican
saint, bracket that originally contained a large picture on wood of St. Francis of
Assisi.

In the main altar niche is the statue of St. Francis of Assisi albergo before the
Immaculate Conception.
Cathedral
On August 21, 1724 during the celebrations to commemorate the 203 years since
the fall of Tenochtitlan foundation stone was laid and the efforts of the inhabitants
of the city, four years later it was over, its main entrance framed by the towers
Renaissance style. More than 130 angels adorn the church. It is located at 1 East
and 2nd. of Morelos. Religious building dating from the eighteenth century,
dedicated to the Virgen de la Concepción, has characteristics of Baroque
architecture, Neoclassical style inside Herreriano.

Made of stone and adobe and measure 57 meters long from its main portal, 14 feet
wide, 25 meters long on the crossing, 15 meters high in the nave and dome and
bell towers that reach 28 meters.

It has a Latin cross and cruise in the center of which stands a dome, at the foot is
the gateway between two towers and access other home setting and in the hollows
formed by the arms and out of the cross. The main entrance is framed by the
Renaissance-style towers.

Opposite the church is a framed window with what are known as Renaissance
architecture of song sheets and so appear as feathers indigenous codices, green
quetzal feathers representing the sacred. There are several heads carved cat and
the clock flanked by two figures of angels. The stained glass of landscapes Marian
main gate and up the four shields which also adorn the dome and the figures of his
Holiness Pope John XXIII and Bishop Rafael Ayala and Ayala, first bishop of
Tehuacan.

The dome was coated with four coats Talavera:

The papal
The Bishop Rafael Ayala and Ayala
The night of worship, and
The city of Tehuacan

The interior features a rotating dome that houses on one side to the immaculate
conception of the city patron and the other to place the image of who is being held
and is topped with a crown composed of the main altar. At the top is a painting of
the Blessed Trinity and on the roof the figure of a dove signifying the Holy Spirit.
More than 130 angels adorn the church, the floor was brick home after mosaic and
stone currently Santo Tomas.
The confessionals are
made of cedar wood.
In the vaults would
house the remains of
the bishops of
Tehuacan, where
currently the Don
Rafael Ayala and
Ayala, these vaults
are connected to a
tunnel that runs under
the central aisle and
probably come to the
park Juárez.

In the chapel of the

Blessed to the right of
sanctuary sets the
vestments and the
monumental altar of
1.70 meters and 50
kilograms. In the front
of the atrium are two
sources of modern
baroque style made of
concrete. It has four
bells, the largest is
used to call a funeral
mass, the mass
medium to call regular
meetings and four
bells in major events
such as the erection
of Tehuacán Diocese,
the night of
September 15, the
parties save and
lately in the dismissal of Archbishop Norberto Rivera Carrera to be Archbishop of
Mexico.
Temple and Ex
Convento del
Carmen
The Church of Our Lady of Mount Caramel is like the convent, of Mexican baroque
architecture typical of the eighteenth century, has one tower and the plant is in the
form of a Latin cross, and the cruise is roofed with a dome set on a drum supported
by its size windows.

The main hall has a ceiling with a barrel vault supported by arches, its axis has no
windows and northern borders with former convent, its body proportions are very
massive, denoting an architecture meant to withstand strong earthquakes.

The altar has three niches on the left side the Prophet Elijah, the center found the
beautiful image of Our Lady of Mount Caramel and on the right Santa Teresa of
Avila, Carmelite religious latter Doctor of the Church.

Access to the temple is via two gates: the main near the top of the nave and side.
There is no proper inventory of artistic and religious works that bring authors and
dates of manufacture, but which are visible and make up the heritage of the temple
are:

From the main entrance, on the right:

Niche with a statue of St. Anthony of Padua. Lithographs of San Judas Tadeo and
Our Lady of the Lakes. Sculpture of Christ crucified and Dolorosa. Image of Our
Lady of Fatima. Santa Cecilia. Author: Don Romualdo Ortiz. Our Lady of the
Rosary. Sculpture. Santa Martha. Sculpture. R. Ortiz, 1946. Oil old San Jose (on
the entrance to the chapel of the Blessed). On the altar of St. Joseph statue of St.
Joseph, St. Charbel (R. Ortiz, donated by Mrs. Milena Ceja) and San Martín de
Porres (R. Ortiz. 1946).

On the left:
Niche with statue of Jesus lying with his mother (Mercy). Lithograph of Our Lady of
Perpetual Help. Niche of Divine Providence. Image of Our Lady of Mount Caramel
with Jesus in her arms. Sculpture. Oils of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Mary
Help of Christians. Carving niche Lord of the Marvels. Sculpture of Fray Juan de
Zumarraga and Juan Diego. (Work of R. Ortiz). In the midst of this set, a large oil
painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe surrounded by four medallions representing oil
apparitions of the Virgin in 1531. Oil down, niche and Child Charity. In the Chapel
of the Sacred Heart, at the entrance to the crypt, sculpture of the Sacred Heart.

Note that in the top of the walls of the transept is a series of ancient paintings with
different passages of Sacred History: Betrothal of the Virgin and St. Joseph, the
Annunciation, the Nativity, Flight into Egypt, Presentation in the Temple , etc. and
distributed throughout the interior, the stations of the cross in oil on wood,
excellently preserved and embellished with a colorful very good.

On November 2, 1994 was inaugurated and opened to the public Crypt del
Carmen: a columbarium built under the altars that serve to keep the ashes of
people whose bodies were cremated. The columbarium holds the bottom of the
chapels of the Sacred Heart, the Blessed and the High Altar, and the room next to
the chapel of the Sacred Heart, where they discovered the original vain that serves
as a gateway.

Was used to this end, the space occupied by the original crypts from the
eighteenth century. It is possible to admire a painting of St. Catherine of
Alexandria, patron saint of philosophy, in a passage that represents the mystics
responsories Santa with Baby Jesus. There are two sketches of frescoes very
difficult to define in two underground chambers.

The columbarium is composed of 27 modules which are independent units with

their own numbering and dedications. The niches have marble tops and brass
escutcheons. It is interesting to note that some of the marble tops come with
embedded vein marine animals such as snails, oysters túrratelas and petrified over
millions of years. The resources generated by the sale of the niches will be applied
to works of evangelization, catechesis and pastoral programs of the Church of
Tehuacan.

Thus, we conclude that this property was built over two hundred years for the
evangelization of the region of Tehuacán, as a token of recognition of the value of
the inhabitants of the lands in America, with body and soul, spirit and matter.
Construction over the decades has witnessed momentous events in the history of
Mexico and the city itself. Today, the Convent and Church of Carmen are still alive
and doing a service to man through the elements that fed into his mind: religion,
history, culture and art.

Main Plaza Juarez Park which is home to visitors under the

shadow of its robust laurels, so pleasant listening classical
Mexican music and the beautiful kiosk solemn La Banda Municipal runs on
Thursday nights and Sundays at noon and afternoon .

Interesting places
MUSEO DE MINEROLOGÍA

MUSEO PALEONTOLÓGICO COMUNITARIO

DE SAN JUAN RAYA

BALNEARIO PARQUE AVENTURA

 Centro de Interpretación Ambiental

 Sitio Arqueológico "Chuta

 Prismas Basalticos

 Zona de Campamento y cabañas

 Museo Comunitario

 Iglesia el Calvario

 Balneario "La Huerta"

 Las Salinas

 Capilla Enterrada

 Cerro El Pajarito

 Cascada de agua Tilapa

 Bosque de tetechos

 Santuario de la Pata de Elefante

 Vivero "Cutha"

PARQUE RECREATIVO EL RIEGO

BAL
NEARIO SAN LORENZO
 MUSEO DEL AGUA

Gastronomia

Muegano
The mixture of wheat flour, shortening, milk, egg, brown sugar and honey, resulting
in 78 years ago a nutritious cookie muégano now known as, well as for its taste like
friends and strangers and has become Tehuacán
typical sweet,
building a regional tradition
that has been transferred at least four generations.

At first the development of mueganos was 100% manual, albeit with the desire on
out and raise production without leaving the original recipe and meet unmet
demand, improvements have been implemented aimed wing modernization have
innovation in processing and presentation of the items that are characterized by
natural ingredients.

Mole de Caderas
The months of October and November are the party for more than 286,000 people
in Tehuacan, as it revives an old tradition that has its origins in the colonial era
"The Ritual Cultural and Ethnic Festival Hip Mole."

The "City Indians" or "Corn Crib", as known Tehuacán, attracts thousands of

families and friends to a festival environment that smells of incense and flower of
the dead, and
combining past and
present with the
religious and pagan;
and satisfies the
craving for a year
again enjoy a
delicious bowl of "Hip
Mole."

The Cultural Ritual

and Ethnic Festival
Hip Mole, or killing,
as it was known until
2005, is a tradition
that began in the
early seventeenth
century, a product of
miscegenation
between the Spanish and the pre-Hispanic, derived from practice and livestock
farm, which was introduced in America by the Spanish people, pervading the
customs of the Middle Ages, did not exist in our nation.

Long before the Spanish arrived, the Indians cooked turkey meat, rabbit and deer.
When goats introduced in New Spain, began mixing food that I bring to the popular
cuisine a variety of dishes like the Garlic spine, backbone ajoarriero, udder, kidney,
tongue, heads, blocks brain, leg of lamb with beans and the skill of the cooks was
created. One result is the "Mole of Hips" or as it was known at first the "Mole's
back", which strongly acclimate in the Puebla-Oaxaca Mixteca.

The chronicles record that "since 1784, every third Thursday of October, is
sacrificed goats which derived meat and spice flavor unsurpassed." The spine and
hips, salt-based seasonings and chile to prepare a red broth boiled with the flesh of
the hips and wild beans. are essential parts of the traditional mole hips.

The characteristic flavor of the dish is the meat of the goats that are taken for a ride
a year grazing throughout the regions of the state and northern Mexico cattle fed
only with grass in the region and avoiding large amounts of salt at all costs that the
animals drink water and stay hydrated only by those who provide them with the
vegetables consumed. In practice this type of breeding you get meat from a strong
and distinctive taste with
which they prepare traditional dishes. The meat is completely absorbed.
Pan de Burro
There is a huge variety of
traditional dishes like the "Nopal Toro" in San Cristobal Tepeteopan, by dipping
rocks at high temperature and cactus chile stew still raw, to cook, to see the effort
and dedication of those who make the call " Pan de Burro "in San Jose Miahuatlán,
skill and patience of those who embroider in San Juan Atzingo, popoloca people
located in the municipality of San Gabriel Chilac or those who do basketry in San
Pablo and Altepexi Tepetzingo definitely admire.

As not to mention the tamales wrapped in oak leaves, the beans are grown and
consumed in San Felipe Maderas, the "Tepexilotes" Coming from Tepexilotla
roasts, giant ants or "chicatanas" Ajalpan consumed, the worms "Cuchama" and
based beverage garambullo of gradient of the exquisite "Colesho" of Zinacatepec,
mole Cuayucatepec Miahuateco of the pulque of the mountain, tempesquixtles
beans with lamb or leg, used in much of the valley, without neglecting payano or
ground beans, ground bean tamales de Santa Maria San Gabriel Chilac ALCO and
all delicious dishes!.

It is undisputed that the ancestral "mole-hipped" and barbecued goat are well
booked their place in this enormous culinary range, like the waters of various fruits
of the season, the incredible atolls canary grass, amaranth, soy, corn dough and
brown sugar. Besides, merit sauces made with all kinds of peppers alone or mixed
with other produce. No less than a hundred sauces can be seen and tasted during
the year when samples are gastronomic among the ingredients to create sauces
features a star-flavor tomato sauces and between the "ant" drawn on the board
auxiliary Santa Maria Coapan.