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Paseo por Mexico Crocodile Museum in Tuxtla Gutierrez

Crocodile Museum in Tuxtla Gutierrez

Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas

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The Crocodile Museum in Tuxtla Gutiérrez is located at Calz. Cerró Hueco s/n Col. El Zapotal, was inaugurated on August 3, 2004, is the most recent enclosure of the Miguel Álvarez del Toro Regional Zoo and due to the uniqueness of its exhibits, is considered the only one of its kind in the world. It is a space conceived so that the public perceives in a self-guided and didactic way the importance that crocodilians have in the ecological, cultural, scientific, economic aspects and even the appropriate way of living with them.

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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