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20 de Noviembre

Traditional market with fresh produce stalls, bakery and local street food.

Benito Juárez

Colorful market with vendors offering crafts, street food, and fabrics.

De artesanías

Market for traditional fabric crafts and embroidery.

Chocolate Mayordomo

Chocolate Mayordomo was born in 1956 as a family business originally from Tlacolula, Oaxaca, the chocolate is prepared entirely with natural products such as cocoa, cinnamon, almonds and sugar. Visit the Mayordomo chocolate factory to learn about the entire production process.

Iconic places in downtown Oaxaca

Santo Domingo

The Temple of Santo Domingo de Guzmán is an example of New Spain baroque architecture. The first construction projects for the building date back to 1551, when the Antequera de Oaxaca City Council ceded a total of twenty-four lots to the Dominican Order for the construction of a convent in the city.

Jardín Etnobotánico

The Oaxaca Ethnobotanical Garden is a 2.3-hectare botanical garden in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Live shows hundreds of species of plants, all of them native to Oaxaca. The plants come from different regions of the State, both from arid and humid climates, from the low tropical zones and from the temperate and cold mountainous areas. The Garden thus represents the great diversity of climates, geological formations and types of vegetation that characterize Oaxaca.

Andador Turístico

It is one of the main streets of Oaxaca. Cobbled street with green quarry that in 1985 was closed to the passage of vehicles to convert it into a pedestrian path, leading to the heart of the Zócalo and allowing a pleasant walk visiting craft shops, restaurants, museums and other places of interest.

Places of interest near downtown Oaxaca

San Martín Tilcajete

It is the town where alebrijes are born, representations of imaginary animals carved in wood in a combination of bright colors. We recommend you look at the workshop of Jacobo and María Ángeles.

San Bartolo Coyotepec

This town is of pre-Hispanic origin, due to the archaeological finds found it is known that it was a Zapotec settlement since time immemorial. San Bartolo was the only one where black clay "Barro negro" crafts were worked and are still being worked.

Santo Tomás Jalieza

The "city of belts", the land where the hands of Oaxacan artisans have managed to boost the name of their municipality for their dedicated and beautiful textiles that have been forged for generations, thanks to the skill and creativity of their artisans with the backstrap loom .

Mitla

Main ceremonial center after Monte Albán. The archaeological complex and the current town are Zapotec, Mitla was inhabited since the classical period (100 to 650 AD) reaching its maximum growth and apogee in the post-classical period (750 to 1521 AD).

Oaxaca y sus alrededores

Monte Albán

Monte Albán is an archaeological site located 8 km from the city of Oaxaca de Juárez. It was the ancient capital of the Zapotecs and one of the first cities in Mesoamerica. The archaeological zone of Monte Albán was declared by UNESCO, together with the Historic Center of the City of Oaxaca, as Cultural Heritage of Humanity on December 11, 1987.

Hierve el Agua

Hierve el Agua is a system of petrified waterfalls, formed by calcium carbonate. The waterfalls are of natural origin and were formed thousands of years ago, by the runoff of water with a high mineral content. We recommend you go very early to avoid large groups of people.

Árbol del Tule

The Tule Tree is the tree with the largest trunk diameter in the world. Its real age is unknown, but according to estimates it is more than 2000 years old. It has a crown circumference of approximately 58 meters and a height of 42 meters. With a trunk diameter of 14.5 meters, it is estimated that at least 30 people would be needed with their hands intertwined to cover it and approximately 500 people fit in its shadow.

If you travel to the coast of Oaxaca

Puerto Escondido

Boats depart from the Main Beach to meet turtles and dolphins. Zicatela is the one with the best atmosphere and the mecca of surfing, due to its constant waves. Playa Bachoco is ideal to go as a couple and take a horseback ride. On the other hand, we have Puerto Ángel, the magnet for backpackers and nature lovers who are looking for a getaway to see waterfalls or prefer to snorkel in calm waters. Finally, we arrive at the Magical Town of Mazunte with its turtle camps open almost all year round and its sister beach, Zipolite, surely you know that this is the only nudist beach in Mexico.

Puerto Escondido continues to maintain its rustic and relaxed atmosphere, which is noticeable by not finding large hotel chains, here you sleep in cabins, in family inns near the beach, or in eco-chic boutique hotels.

Very close to Puerto Escondido are the Laguna de Manialtepec and the Lagunas de Chacahua, The most popular tour takes place at night to appreciate the phenomenon of bioluminescence in certain seasons of the year.

Huatulco

Find 36 golden sand beaches and a tropical climate almost all year round that allows you to carry out activities, such as: kayak excursions, catamaran rides, snorkeling and diving to submerge among the remains of sunken ships or appreciate the reef, as well as expeditions to waterfalls and horseback riding.

Tangolunda Bay is where the All Inclusive hotels and houses for rent are located. But, you will also find cabins and cheap lodging in Bahía de San Agustín, with its semi-virgin beaches.

Do not miss the sunrise in Bahía Conejos; the sky is painted orange and purple, the scene is so spectacular that the locals usually gather on the beach to welcome the first day of the year.

La Crucecita is the heart of Huatulco, when taking a walk you find the cathedral and its monumental Virgin of Guadalupe painted on the ceiling and restaurants to travel through the Oaxacan gastronomy, including several mezcalerías for night drinks.

Do not pass by the Museum of Oaxacan Crafts and admire the rugs worked by hand in Teotitlán del Valle, as well as pieces of black clay, alebrijes and embroidery. And, if you want to learn the tradition of natural wool dyeing, then go to the Beel Guiée Artisan Textile Center, in the community of Arroyo González, very close to the municipal seat.

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