TEHUACAN

Tehuacan is a privileged city location, is located in the southwestern part of the state of Puebla, its average altitude of 1640 meters, has an average temperature ranging between 18 th and 22 th C. The warm climate is semi dry, with little rain in summer, as a municipality, the 12 boards that privilege strengthen auxiliary springs, archaeological sites, biotic wealth, among other wonders that make it up. As the valley, gathers and uses the dynamics of other important towns that are developed throughout the territory. As a region is one of the poles with the greatest development potential in southeastern Puebla and northern Oaxaca, without neglecting her relationship with the state of Veracruz.




LOCATION






The town of Tehuacan is located in the valley of the same name. This valley is the east by the Sierra de Zongolica, which is part of the Sierra Madre Oriental, and on the west by the mountains of Zapotitlan, which is part of the Sierra Mixteca. The northwest adjacent to the valley and south Tecamachalco Glen Oaxaca.


Located in the southeastern part of the State of Puebla. Its geographic coordinates are the parallels 18 ° 22 '6 and 18 ° 36' 12 north longitude and the meridian 97 ° 15 '24 and 97 ° 37' 24 west longitude. Bordered on the north Tepanco Lopez, Santiago Miahuatlán, Vicente Guerrero and Nicolas Bravo, east to Vicente Guerrero, San Antonio Cañada and Ajalpan the south by San Gabriel Chilac, Zapotitlán, San Antonio Texcala and Altepexi; and west Zapotitlán, Atexcal San Martín, Juan N. Tepanco Mendez and Lopez.

TOURIST ATTRACTNS




CITY HALL


Formerly known as "the house of the high, was built in the year 1804 by mr. Don Apresa Sunday, and was seen in the city as the first particular two-story building.
Its construction was a challenge to the Franciscans because it would clog the front of this religious site and the convent. The acquisition of this property took place the year of 1844 but was until 1855, when they began to move some government agencies.
The murals on the ground floor leading into the palace known as Tehuacan and 5 regions. Conducted in 1983 and 1984 by the Tehuacan originating Carpinteyro brothers. And in the year 1989, the artist painted the mural Cuthbert Correa "agony and hope, " which is located inside the municipal palace












MUSEUM OF MINERALOGY


This museum was opened on July 31, 1998 and represents a scientist's dream come true and sinking into one of colors and shapes to visit this museum. Its creator, a man of great erudition won the Carnegie Medal awarded by the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, discovered two minerals Mexicans and Ojuelaita Malpimita, humanist greatly advanced by the time we opened the door of knowledge and awareness of the raw material and forms around us: the minerals.

EX CONVENT OF SAN FRANCISCO


The former convent of San Francisco was built in 1592, before this temple was erected in Calcahualco (Tehuacán old), but twenty years later had to move the current place for a malaria-endemic problem had been sick monks and the plague of ants and rattlesnakes that she could not progress

CATHEDRAL


On August 21, 1724 during the celebrations to commemorate the 203 years since the fall of Tenochtitlan foundation stone was laid and the efforts of the inhabitants of the city, four years later it was over, its main entrance framed by the towers Renaissance style. More than 130 angels adorn the church. It is located at 1 East and 2nd. of Morelos. Religious building dating from the eighteenth century, dedicated to the Virgen de la Concepción, has characteristics of Baroque architecture, Neoclassical style inside Herreriano.
Made of stone and adobe and measure 57 meters long from its main portal, 14 feet wide, 25 meters long on the crossing, 15 meters high in the nave and dome and bell towers that reach 28 meters.

GASTRONOMY






MUEGANOS


The mixture of wheat flour, shortening, milk, egg, brown sugar and honey, resulting in 78 years ago a nutritious cookie muégano now known as, well as for its taste like friends and strangers and has become Tehuacán typical sweet, building a regional tradition that has been transferred at least four generations.
At first the development of mueganos was 100% manual, albeit with the desire on out and raise production without leaving the original recipe and meet unmet demand, improvements have been implemented aimed wing modernization have innovation in processing and presentation of the items that are characterized by natural ingredients.

MOLE HIP


The months of October and November are the party for more than 286,000 people in Tehuacan, as it revives an old tradition that has its origins in the colonial era "The Ritual Cultural and Ethnic Festival Hip Mole. "
The "City Indians" or "Corn Crib", as known Tehuacán, attracts thousands of families and friends to a festival environment that smells of incense and flower of the dead, and combining past and present with the religious and pagan; and satisfies the craving for a year again enjoy a delicious bowl of "Hip Mole. "
The Cultural Ritual and Ethnic Festival Hip Mole, or killing, as it was known until 2005, is a tradition that began in the early seventeenth century, a product of miscegenation between the Spanish and the pre-Hispanic, derived from practice and livestock farm, which was introduced in America by the Spanish people, pervading the customs of the Middle Ages, did not exist in our nation

Toro El Nopal




The "Cactus Toro" has become a typical dish of the popular regional cuisine and is characteristic of San Cristobal Tepeteopan, auxiliary board of the Municipality of Tehuacan. Although its origin is unknown, its history dates back to prehispanic times and was named in reference to that when the bulls are brave, they leak the dribble, then we say that the cactus is brave as a bull.


The ingredients are: Nopales Wild, which some call "quinhuiti", "cuicuite" or "heart" and they reach their maturity between the months of November and December - coastal Chile (for the gravy dry), cinnamon, cumin, cloves, garlic, dried epazote (for sprinkling), chopped onion and stones "blue" or special are enduring the heat of the fire and no thunder. The preparation starts with the collection of cactus and the very stones that once selected, are placed over hot coals to heat up to high temperatures for about an hour or two, while making tortillas by hand to take the heat.