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Eliseo Palacios Museum of Paleontology in Tuxtla Gutierrez

Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas

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The Eliseo Palacios Paleontology Museum in Tuxtla Gutiérrez displays more than 200 fossils, all from Chiapas, whose ages range between 300 million and 10,000 years. The main hall is crowned by the reconstruction of a megatherium, in addition to having fossil remains of plants, invertebrates and vertebrates representative of almost all the municipalities of the state. Among the most striking exhibits is the so-called Chiapas Amber, where pieces of this fossil resin with inclusions of insects and spiders are displayed.

Municipality

Tuxtla Gutiérrez is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas, it is also the capital of Chiapas since the powers of the state reside there, besides being the most important and most populated city in that territory, it was founded by the Zoque Indians with the name of Coyatoc (place, house or land of rabbits) the current one comes from the Aztecs they named it Tochtlán, which means the same, the main tourist places are the Miguel Álvarez del Toro Zoo, the Regional Museum of Anthropology, the House of Crafts of Tuxtla, the Cathedral of San Marcos, the Marimba Garden Park among many options.

Festivities

In Tuxtla Gutiérrez the most important celebrations are those of San Marcos, San Roque, San Jacinto, San Pascualito, San Francisco, Santo Domingo and the Virgin of Guadalupe.


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