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Zoque Museum of Tuxtla Gutierrez

Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas

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The Zoque Museum of Tuxtla Gutiérrez was inaugurated in 2006. This museum aims to appreciate the elements that identify the Zoque culture, appreciate the different dances they performed and the clothing they used, as well as the history of this ethnic group. In the museum we can also see the house, which traditionally has a thatched roof, wattle and daub walls, and a dirt floor. Currently, this is only found in the most remote ranches, since it has been replaced by constructions made of sheet metal, cement, brick, and stone.

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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