Capital city of Villahermosa in Tabasco, Mexico

Capital city of Villahermosa in Tabasco, Mexico and head of the municipality of Centro.La city was founded on June 24, 1564 (day of San Juan Bautista, hence its original name) by the Spanish Don Diego de Quijada. Its inhabitants are villahermosino or capital. The original colonial name was "Villa Hermosa de San Juan Bautista", after the Mexican Revolution, was only "Villahermosa" or "City of Villahermosa. Has the largest urban population of the State of Tabasco.

The city of Villahermosa is metropolitan with four other locations belonging to the municipality of Centro, such as: Villa Macultepec, Ocuiltzapotlán Villa, Villa Parrilla 1 ª. Beaches section and Villa del Rosario, and two locations in the neighboring municipality of Nacajuca: Saloya Forest and La Selva. Together, these two municipalities make up the metropolitan area of Villahermosa which includes a total of 664.629 people and places in the twenty-second largest conurbation of Mexico and the second most populated southeast, behind only the metropolitan area of Mérida, according to the last count and the official definition by the INEGI, CONAPO and SEDESOL in 2005. Only the city of Villahermosa was until this year with a population of 558.524 inhabitants according to the Second Census of Population and Housing carried out also in the same year .

The city stands out as a business center and administration of the oil industry and southeastern Mexico. Villahermosa is a modern city with an abundance of natural resources and enjoys being the connection between Mexico City (880 km) and the most important cities of the east and Cancun (900 km), Merida (500 km) Campeche (390 km ) Tuxtla Gutierrez (298 km) and Ciudad del Carmen (168 km). It also is linked with the Republic of Guatemala through the international road-Tenosique Villahermosa-Flores (Tikal).



Known as the "Emerald of the Southeast", is a cosmopolitan city and site of congresses and conventions, has the best shopping, entertainment and services in the Southeast. This city combines modernity and rich cultural heritage with a variety of tourist attractions: parks, such as Tomás Garrido's attractions and the Parque-Museo La Venta with attractive light and sound show, museums, such as Tabasco History , and major entertainment venues such as entertainment and business center of the boardwalk with a variety of restaurants, bars and discotheques, or as the Tabasco 2000 complex, the most modern city, where the main administrative buildings: City Hall and Government Administrative Centre and a Planetarium and the Galeries Tabasco, which has numerous department stores, boutiques, restaurants and even a 5 star hotel. Only 15 kms from the city lies at the theme park Yumka 'representing the main ecosystems of Tabasco and offers guided tours

Villahermosa Tabasco and everything has been rediscovered by travelers. Today, one of the most important oil states of Mexico, is not just a passing in the search of the unfathomable mysteries of the Chiapas jungle, but a real target at the crossroads between the past and the modern. Perhaps a new civilizing seed is germinating in these warm lands.

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la venta , villa hermosa park

In the La Venta Park-Museum is exhibiting 36 pieces of monumental proportions, five of which are located in room access
 we introduce the Olmec world through information panels, and 33 monoliths, which are outdoors, among which are:
The head of Jaguar, Monkey Looking to Heaven, Humanized Jaguar, the Great Altar, the Mosaic of Jaguar, King, Colossal Head,
Altar with Gift, Grandmother, and the Old Head.

Although they all come from La Venta, were prepared at different times, over a period of not less than six hundred years
 although its distribution in this museum bears no chronological order, but have been classified into four groups: altars
 contrails, and stunning sculptures in colossal heads.

The imagery shown in these works is very broad, and not only teach us manners
 and the probable physical type of the Olmecs, but also its social, political and economic.

The museum visit begins with an introductory room, where it is located, by means of images and a model,
the archaeological site of La Venta in the Mesoamerican context.

Then passed to the jungle, which has been reproduced in this space, where the sculptures are scattered among the vegetation and litter,
 and some animals roaming free, like deer, raccoons and monkeys. There are also jaguars and crocodiles in captivity
among the latter is a very famous in Villahermosa, who is called "Papillon" because he has escaped several times from museum
and is not only the oldest but the largest of all who live there.

HISTORY

Doing a bit of history, one could say they were the archaeologists Frans Blom and Oliver La Farge who discovered at La Venta
 Huimanguillo municipality, Tabasco, the remnants of a political and religious center, and Matthew Stirling and Philip Drucker explored the area in 1940.
Although the two first became aware of the great outdoor imprtancia of culture, the last placed to flourish
 between 800 and 400 BC.

In the fifties, he discovered a rich tapestry Pemex energy, near the town of La Venta,
which began to explode immediately, changing the natural environment and destroying many traces constructed by that culture.

 For this reason, Carlos Pellicer Camara initiative was launched to rescue a large number of archaeological,
transferring them to the city of Villahermosa in a natural, as assumed they were when they met.

 The museum park is named after the place where the pieces were found
. And it was from there, and through efforts of the poet Carlos Pellicer since 1951, moved to Villahermosa. Pellicer found an ideal place to house the monumental sculptures that amaze the world: eight acres of forest located on the shores of Lake of Illusions. Pellicer wanted the landscape was very similar to home and put the pieces according to unearth them as they were before. So, in July and August 1957, starts the transfer of large monoliths with the help of various government institutions in Mexico