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Paseo por Mexico Cow's Foot Museum in Tepexi de Rodriguez

Cow's Foot Museum in Tepexi de Rodriguez

Tepexi de Rodríguez, Puebla

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In the area near the Pie de Vaca museum, there are footprints of various mammals that belong to the Cenozoic era, probably from the lower Tertiary (35 million years). The significant similarity of these footprints with those produced by cows, led the inhabitants to call this site Pie de Vaca; most of the footprints, according to specialists, could belong to camels.

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Tepexi de Rodríguez, its name means Place of Cliffs in Nahuatl, is a southern Mexican town and municipality of the Mixteca Poblana, in the state of Puebla, it has beautiful architectural structures such as the temple of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, the Municipal Palace, both erected in the 16th century, House of councils from 1604, also the Pie de Vaca museums, archeology and customs, the Tlayúa quarry is a unique fossiliferous site in the world due to the large number of fossils in the perfect state of preservation, 100 million years ago, the first Friday of Lent, Lord of Huacoyuca, cultural and sports program, with a fair, craft exhibitions with religious and social reasons.

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