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The cradle of miscegenation, a particularly festive land in which,

Art and culture as is to be expected, there is never a lack of reasons to dress up

and give in to the celebration.

El Tajín was the ancient capital of the Totonac culture.
According to specialists, it was contemporary with other

large metropolises in Mesoamerica such as Teotihuacan (in
the center of Mexico), Monte Albán (in Oaxaca) and

Palenque or Yaxchilán, in the Mayan World.

Voladores de Papántla:Five bird-men, tied by a rope,

must climb to the top of a pole (or trunk) -subject fixedly
to the ground-, so that, once in the heights, only four of

them, to the rhythm of the drum music and the flute

In Huasteca, women produce pottery for their own consumption

and sale of surpluses; they make ritual and utilitarian pieces
burnished, with incisions, perforated or decorated "with the brush

with lands of different colors and designs of geometric bands and

floral figures"

In Tlacotalpan they elaborate the jarocha suits that identify the
state, with Spanish reminiscences; in Perote weave wool rugs

with the Persian technique of knotted by hand in vertical loom,

reaching 100 thousand knots per square meter

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