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Less than an hour by car, northwest of the city of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, is the town of Tihosuco. One of the aspects that most distinguishes Tihosuco is its monumental Church and convent of the "divine child", located in the center of the town, west of the main square.
Felipe Carrillo Puerto is one of the ten municipalities that make up the state of Quintana Roo, formerly known as Santa Cruz de Bravo and Chan Santa Cruz, has various tourist and cultural attractions such as the Temple of the Talking Cross, in Tihosuco, Tepich and other localities there are vestiges of churches and convents that date back to the colonial era, in Chunyaxche there is an important archaeological zone next to a lagoon of the same name, the coast that has beaches and coral reefs and lagoons such as Noh Bec and Kaná, the Tihosuco Caste War Museum, in the month of May the Santa Cruz is celebrated and in the month of January the Feast of the Three Kings.
In May, the Santa Cruz is celebrated, and in January, the Three Kings festival is celebrated. Traditional dances include the dance of the pig's head, in which one person holds a tray with a cooked pig's head adorned with confetti on his or her head and the other people dance with it. Another dance is La Cinta, in which the dancers weave figures with the multi-colored ribbons that come off the tip of a pole about 10 meters long. Also common are the Yucatecan-influenced jaranas, which are danced at the Vaquerías, popular festivals that are generally held in honor of patron saints.
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