Sights in Tabasco
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Centro Cultural Villahermosa
Staging varied exhibits of Tabascan and other Mexican work.
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Galería El Jaguar Despertado
Staging varied exhibits of Tabascan and other Mexican work.
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Palacio de Gobierno
The gallery in the Palacio de Gobierno stages varied exhibits of Tabascan and other Mexican work.
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Torre del Caballero
Known locally as ‘El Mirador,’ this lookout tower, on a footbridge over the Río Grijalva, affords good panoramas over the city and river.
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Museo de Historia Natural
The Museo de Historia Natural has quite well set-out displays on dinosaurs, space, early humanity and Tabascan ecosystems (all in Spanish).
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Regional Anthropology Museum
Still being reconstructed following the 2007 flood, the regional anthropology museum holds some interesting exhibits on Olmec and Maya cultures in Tabasco.
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Museo Regional de Antropología
Still being reconstructed following the 2007 flood, the regional anthropology museum holds some interesting exhibits on Olmec and Maya cultures in Tabasco. It’s 1km south of the Zona Luz in the ‘CICOM’ complex, and is due to reopen by 2012.
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Museo de Historia
Housed in a striking 19th-century building known as La Casa de los Azulejos (House of Tiles), the Museo de Historia has sparse exhibits on Tabasco history, but the Spanish azulejos themselves, which cover the facade and most of the interior, are gorgeous.
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Parque-Museo la Venta
This fascinating outdoor park and museum was created in 1958, when petroleum exploration threatened the highly important ancient Olmec settlement of La Venta in western Tabasco. Archaeologists moved the site’s most significant finds, including three colossal stone heads, to Villahermosa.
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Ancient Comalcalco
Comalcalco was at its peak between AD 600 and 1000, when ruled by the Chontals. It remained an important center of commerce for several more centuries, trading in a cornucopia of pre-Hispanic luxury goods: cacao, salt, feathers, deer and jaguar skins, wax, honey, turtle shells, tobacco, chilies, manta-ray spines, cotton, polychrome ceramics, copal, jade and greenstone hachas (flat, carved-stone objects associated with the ritual ball game).
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Grutas del Coconá
At the Grutas del Coconá, 4km northeast of the center, a well-made concrete path leads 500m into a cavern with pools, bats, plenty of stalactites and stalagmites, and a small museum containing pre-Hispanic ritual items found in the cave. Listen for the roar of howler monkeys at the cave entrance. Bring a flashlight or be prepared to pay an additional M$50 for a guide to turn on the cavern lights. Guides can also be hired to explore undeveloped caves nearby. Combis marked ‘Grutas’ (M$5.50, 10 minutes) will take you there every half-hour from Bastar beside Teapa’s central church.
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Centro de Interpretación Uyotot-Ja
The reserve’s visitor center, the Centro de Interpretación Uyotot-Ja, or ‘Casa de Agua, ’ is 13km along the road to the town of Jonuta, beside the broad, winding Río Grijalva. Here a 20m-high observation tower overlooks the awesome confluence of the Grijalva, the Usumacinta and a third large river, the San Pedrito – a spot known as Tres Brazos (Three Arms). Guides lead you round a nature trail and displays on the wetlands. Boat trips (two hours, up to seven people M$500) are available into the mangroves, where you should see crocodiles, iguanas, birds and, with luck, howler monkeys. March to May is the best birding season.
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Yumká
This Tabascan safari park, 17km east of Villahermosa (4km past the airport), is hardly a Kenyan game drive, but the space and greenery do offer a break from the city. Yumká is divided into jungle, savanna and lake zones, representing Tabasco’s three main ecosystems. Visits take the form of guided tours of the three areas (30 minutes each). In the jungle zone you see regional Mexican species such as howler monkeys, jaguars, scarlet macaws and toucans. The savanna, viewed from a tractor-pulled trolley, has an African section with elephants, giraffes, zebras and hippos, and an Asian section with axis deer, antelope, buffalo and gaur (the largest ox in the world). You tour…
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