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.
34 km · about 40 min drive
Puebla, Mexico · North America
Villa Lázaro Cárdenas sits on the route: 5 minutes from Coronel Tito Hernández, 34km from El Tajín.
Villa Lázaro Cárdenas is a town located in Puebla, Mexico. With a population of 12,253, it is an important destination in North America.
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Venustiano Carranza is a municipality in the Mexican state of Puebla.
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Villa Lázaro Cárdenas is located in Puebla, Mexico, North America. The coordinates are 20.4619 latitude, -97.7002 longitude.
Villa Lázaro Cárdenas has a population of approximately 12,253 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.
34 km · about 40 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.
40 km · about 45 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.
53 km · about 60 min drive
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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