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San Andrés Huayapam
San Andres Huayapam town (in Nahuatl means water place), is located 12 km northeast from Oaxaca city, along Oaxaca-Tuxtepec freeway. It has 500 inhabitans, most of them occupied on the harvest of regional fruit species. Surranded by rivers and mountains the location is touched by a particular charm, of its beautiful landscape, tranquility and hospitality of it's people. San Andres Huayapam is also known by the Cacao flower, (wich is a white flower) and it is used to give flavor and fragance to the local bevarage called Tejate. |
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San Pablo Guelatao
This small, cheerful mountain town was the birthplace of Benito Juárez (also known as Benemérito de las Américas). Guelatao means tiny lake, and beside this small lake, the Laguna Encantada, there is a stone and bronze monument that depicts Juárez as a shepherd, as well as his mother, Doña Brígida García de Juárez. To get there from Oaxaca City take Federal Highway 175 for 55 kilometers toward Tuxtepec. |
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Capulalpan de Méndez
There is a magnificent seventeenth-century church dedicated to San Mateo here. The church incorporates both baroque and neoclassic styles. The church has a number of retables from diverse periods--all of exquisite craftsmanship. The inhabitants of Capulalpan manufacture woolen textiles such as blankets, rugs, serapes, and beautifully embroidered clothing. Capulalpan is 10 kilometers from Ixtlán de Juárez. |
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Ixtlán de Juárez (Monday is Market Day)
You should visit Ixtlán de Juárez on a Monday, as that is market day, when the inhabitants from the surrounding region converge here to sell their produce. The main attraction here is a churrigueresque seventeenth-century church dedicated to San Tomás. It has a beautiful entryway of pink cantera, a doorway and retables carved out of precious wood, and a baptismal font of sculpted cantera. Ixtlán is 3 kilometers from Guelatao. |
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