Voladores in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City.
Danza de los Voladores, or the Dance of the Flyers, in Chapultapec Park, Mexico City Watch as the Voladores launch themselves from a 30 meter (98 foot) pole, held only by a rope, all while flipping and turning round and round. Chapultapec Park is the largest urban green space in Latin America and very popular on Sundays with the people of Mexico City.
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Voladores - Chapultepec Park, Mexico City
Voladores from Veracruz perform outside the Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.
Voladores de Papantla
Aqui el video de los voladores de Papantla, me parece son del INAH, quienes se encuentran frente al Museo de Antropología e Historia, en la Ciudad de México. Ya saben cerca del paseo de la Reforma, en la primera sección de Chapultepec
Virtual Tour - El Tajin, Papantla and Tecolutla beach - Mexico
Let´s explore some beautiful places in the State of Veracruz during our weekend trip on Saturday the 5th of September and Sunday the 6th of September 2015 with Aztec Explorers / Azteca Travel Tours Art.
We will visit the impressive archeological site of El Tajin, the beautiful town of Papantla (Pueblo Mágico) and the laid back beach and river town of Tecolutla, were we can make a boat trip in the mangroves, release baby sea turtles, enjoy the beach and eat some of the best sea food. It´s time to explore some more (hidden) jewels of the State of Veracruz. We will stay at an excellent hotel with swimming pools right at the beach (1 night, 2 days).
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Archeological site of El Tajin:
El Tajín is a pre-Columbian archeological site in southern Mexico and is one of the largest and most important cities of the Classic era of Mesoamerica. El Tajín flourished from 600 to 1200 C.E. and during this time numerous temples, palaces, ballcourts, and pyramids were built. From the time the city fell, in 1230, to 1785, no European seems to have known of its existence. El Tajín 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 over 650,000 visitors a year.
Papantla (Pueblo Mágico):
Papantla is a beautiful town located in the north of the state of Veracruz. The city was founded in the 13th century by the Totonacs and has dominated the Totonacapan region of the state since then. This is the home of vanilla, which is native to this region and the Danza de los Voladores. Papantla still has strong communities of Totonacs who maintain the culture and language. The city contains a number of large scale murals and sculptures which honor the Totonac culture. The name Papantla is from Nahuatl and most often interpreted to mean place of the papanes (a species of crow). This meaning is reflected in the municipality’s coat of arms.
Tecolutla:
Tecolutla is a town and municipality located on the Tecolutla River on the eastern coast of the state of Veracruz in Mexico. It has the closest beaches to Mexico City as it is only a four or five-hour drive from the capital. It is along the Gulf of Mexico called the “Emerald Coast”. Tecolutla’s biggest attraction is its natural settings of wetlands with estuaries, canals and mangroves associated with the river. The name Tecolutla means “place of the tecolotes or owls´.
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The Beauty of Veracruz (Zempoala)
Located in Veracruz, Mexico Zempoala was named for the 20 riviers that unite in the area. Lying just 6 kilometers from the Gulf and a little over from the Rio Actopan. This major city center was the Capital city for the Totonac people. It being the largest city on the Gulf Coast at the time of its conquest, with an estimated population of 30,000 people.
Hurricane Dean takes aim at mainland Mexico, Veracruz
SHOTLIST
1. Various of Veracruz coastline
2. Various of Veracruz streets with rain and strong wind
3. Small boat in the sea
4. Zoom into workers picking up debris from street of
5. Man standing on the seafront
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Francisco Cordoba, Veracruz resident, Voxpop:
Yes, if it rains there are colonies (areas) where the drainage system can't take all the water and they start to flood, if the water level rises.
(Question: Will there be flooding?)
Yes, and we have to leave if it does. There is no other option. We are not going to drown there
7. Wide of waves
8. Palm trees moving with strong winds
9. Woman walking in the rain
STORYLINE
Hurricane Dean's roared into Mexico's mainland on Wednesday with 100 miles per hour (160 kilometres per hour) winds as thousands fled to shelters.
The US National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm's eye moved ashore shortly before 12 noon (1700 GMT) near the small port city of Tecolutla on the central Gulf coast.
Civil defence workers had already joined troops in moving residents on army trucks to inland shelters.
Dean strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane before making landfall, with its outer bands buffeting the coast of Veracruz state.
Faced with the possibility of heavy flooding in the Veracruz area, one resident told AP Television the only option was to leave.
There is no other option, said Francisco Cordoba, We are not going to drown there.
South of Veracruz state, the storm surge flooded Ciudad del Carmen, a city of 120-thousand people.
Dean swept across the Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday as a ferocious Category 5 hurricane, toppling trees, power lines and houses, but sparing glitzy resorts on the Mayan Riviera.
Officials said they had received no reports of deaths in the Yucatan Peninsula, though driving rain, poor communications and impassable roads made it difficult to determine how isolated Mayan communities fared in the sparsely populated jungle.
Dean killed 13 people in the Caribbean as it travelled through the region.
Greatly weakened as it passed over Yucatan, Dean moved across the Bay of Campeche in the southern Gulf of Mexico, home to more than 100 oil platforms, three major oil exporting ports and the Cantarell oil field, Mexico's most productive.
Laguna Verde, Mexico's only nuclear power plant, suspended production.
Dean became the third most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in recorded history when it smashed into the Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday.
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Veracruz | Wikipedia audio article
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Veracruz
00:01:12 1 Etymology
00:01:57 2 Geography
00:02:06 2.1 Political geography
00:03:12 2.2 Natural geography
00:06:56 2.3 Climate
00:09:01 2.4 Ecosystems
00:14:24 3 History
00:14:33 3.1 Pre-Columbian
00:17:59 3.2 Colonial period, 1519–1821
00:24:51 3.3 Independence
00:29:28 3.4 20th century to the present
00:31:54 4 Economy
00:33:47 4.1 Agriculture
00:38:03 4.2 Natural resources
00:39:46 4.3 Golden Lane Oil Fields
00:42:04 4.4 Industry, transportation and commerce
00:45:02 4.5 Handcrafts
00:47:28 5 Culture
00:47:37 5.1 Gastronomy
00:51:06 5.2 Museums
00:54:16 5.3 Fairs and festivals
00:56:21 5.4 Dance and music
01:00:36 5.5 Art and architecture
01:04:44 5.6 Literature
01:07:03 5.7 Religion
01:07:16 6 Education
01:09:57 7 Demographics
01:13:41 8 Tourism
01:15:26 9 Archeological sites
01:18:47 10 Government
01:20:10 11 Infrastructure
01:23:48 12 Major communities
01:23:57 13 See also
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Veracruz (American Spanish: [beɾaˈkɾus] (listen)), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (American Spanish: [beɾaˈkɾuz ðe iɣˈnasjo ðe la ˈʝaβe]), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states that, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided in 212 municipalities and its capital city is Xalapa-Enríquez.
Veracruz is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north, San Luis Potosí and Hidalgo to the west, Puebla to the southwest, Oaxaca and Chiapas to the south, and Tabasco to the southeast. On its east, Veracruz has a significant share of the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico.
The state is noted for its mixed ethnic and indigenous populations. Its cuisine reflects the many cultural influences that have come through the state because of the importance of the port of Veracruz.
In addition to the capital city, the state's largest cities include Veracruz, Coatzacoalcos, Córdoba, Minatitlán, Poza Rica, Boca Del Río and Orizaba.