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Regional Museum of Anthropology and History of Tuxtla Gutiérrez

Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas

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The Regional Museum of Anthropology and History of Tuxtla Gutiérrez provides an overview of the development of Mayan culture in two rooms: pre-Hispanic history and history from the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century. It was inaugurated in September 1984.

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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