ancient ruins
El Tajín
UNESCO-listed pre-Hispanic city in the Veracruz jungle, famed for the Pyramid of the Niches with its 365 recessed windows and the flying voladores ritual performed at its gates.
2 km · about 5 min drive
Veracruz, Mexico · North America
Congregación el Tajín is worth a stop: 10 minutes from El Chote, 2km from El Tajín.
Congregación el Tajín is a town located in Veracruz, Mexico. With a population of 1,363, it is an important destination in North America.
On a road trip, Congregación el Tajín sits in Mexico, where you drive on the right. It's in the America/Mexico City time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Congregación el Tajín to your route.
El Tajín is a pre-Columbian archeological site in Veracruz, Mexico and is one of the largest and most important cities of the Classic era of Mesoamerica. A part of the Classic Veracruz culture, El Tajín flourished from 600 to 1200 AD and during this time numerous temples, palaces, ballcourts, and pyramids were built.Read more
No European seemed to have known of its existence until 1785, when a government inspector chanced upon the Pyramid of the Niches.
El Tajín, named after the Totonac rain god, was named a World Heritage site in 1992, due to its cultural importance and its architecture. This architecture includes the use of decorative niches and cement in forms unknown in the rest of Mesoamerica. Its best-known monument is the Pyramid of the Niches, but other important monuments include the Arroyo Group, the North and South Ballcourts and the palaces of Tajín Chico. In total there have been 20 ballcourts discovered at this site, (the last 3 being discovered in March 2013). Since the 1970s, El Tajin has been the most important archeological site in Veracruz for tourists, attracting 386,406 visitors in 2017.
It is also the site of the annual Cumbre Tajin Festival, which occurs each March featuring indigenous and foreign cultural events as well as concerts by popular musicians.
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Congregación el Tajín is located in Veracruz, Mexico, North America. The coordinates are 20.4305 latitude, -97.3818 longitude.
Congregación el Tajín has a population of approximately 1,363 people, making it a town in Mexico.
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ancient ruins
UNESCO-listed pre-Hispanic city in the Veracruz jungle, famed for the Pyramid of the Niches with its 365 recessed windows and the flying voladores ritual performed at its gates.
2 km · about 5 min drive
landmark
A Totonac hill town in Veracruz's vanilla country, where the Voladores spin down from a 30 m pole beside the church and a huge mural-carved monument to the ritual crowns the hill above the plaza.
7 km · about 15 min drive
landmark
A steeply-stacked Pueblo Mágico in the Puebla sierra where cobbled lanes drop through cloud and coffee plantations, ringed by waterfalls and one of Mexico's largest cave networks. Voladores perform beside the parish church.
48 km · about 55 min drive
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Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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