Tehuacan is located in southeastern Puebla state

tehuacan, puebla


Tehuacan is located in southeastern Puebla state, bordering the north TepancoLopez, Santiago Miahuatlan, Nicolás Bravo, and Vicente Guerrero, eastVicente Guerrero, San Antonio and Ajalpan Canada, south to San GabrielChilac, Zapotitlán and Altepexi and west Zapotitlán, San Martín Atexcal, John N.Tepanco Lopez Mendez.


The predominant climate in the Valley of Tehuacan, semi-dry is warm with little rain in summer.

The average annual temperature is 20 ° C.

Tehuacan is located in southeastern Puebla state, bordering the north TepancoLopez, Santiago Miahuatlan, Nicolás Bravo, and Vicente Guerrero, eastVicente Guerrero, San Antonio and Ajalpan Canada, south to San GabrielChilac, Zapotitlán and Altepexi and west Zapotitlán, San Martín Atexcal, John N.Tepanco Lopez Mendez.


Tehuacán (Nahuatl "theo" = God, "hua" = possessive, "can" = place, meaning "place of the gods") is a city, municipality and municipal seat located in the southeastern Mexican state of Puebla, located 130 km from the city of Puebla, 257 km from Mexico City and 321 km from the city of Oaxaca, at an altitude of1676 meters, semi-warm and semi-dry climate. The population according to2010 census, is 274.907 inhabitants.

Tehuacan has the distinction of being the place where they found the remains of the earliest domestication of maize (up to 5.000 years BC). In addition to thetown hall, the temple of Carmen and the Temple of San Francisco, Tehuacánmineralogical museum has the largest in Latin America.

Archaeological finds show that it was inhabited by village communities 8500 years before Christ. He had a major role in the process of domestication and cultivation of plants. In Tehuacán found the oldest fossil of corn in the world.(Museo del Valle de Tehuacán)




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