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Agua Azul

This impressive series of beautiful water fall is formed when descending the Río Tulijá in a staggered way, creating a series of ponds or natural reservoirs that are contained by calcareous dikes; the calls " gours " in the geologic terminology. The intense turquoise blue color that they possess, that which partly has made them famous, it is in great measure to the calcareous channel of the river. This coloration, joined to the intense green of the vegetation, to the constant breeze and the inexhaustible aquatic sound, they contribute to make of this place, without a doubt some, one of the most beautiful and unforgettable natural shows in the Mexican Republic.

Misolha

As a result of the precipitation of a river for a cantil of calcareous rocks, this beautiful water fall of approximately 30 mts. of height that when falling, it forms a wide puddle in which is possible, with caution, to practice the swimming. This refreshing and beautiful place, is in a typical example of the forest tropical discharge of the chiapaneca mountain , and amid a rich vegetation composed by high copies of mahoganies, chicozapotes and sticks of water.

Agua Clara
This attractiveness has the necessary facilities so that you enjoyment of the such natural environment as: Lodging establishment, Restaurant, Parking, Hut of Surveillance and I Modulate of First Aids. Here the warm-humid climate prevails with rains the whole year. The hydrology is since essential part of the place its tributaries they are the Río Shumulhá or Agua Clara and the Tulijá, important for its flow, besides others of smaller intensity that come from the Sierra Norte as the Michol, Bascam and Misol-há.

Lagunas de Monte Bello

Montebello conforms the most beautiful lacustrine area in all Mexico and it owes its fame to the different tonalities of the colors of its waters, same that they are due to several factors like they are: types of the floor of the bottom, the vegetation and the refraction of the light, and that they go of the pale blue going by the violet, the emerald and the turquoise one. This way, when some of those are admired more than 50 lagoons and lakes that exist, it is comprehensible in all their magnitude, how prodigal and generous it has been the nature with our State.

Cañon del Sumidero

In the pier of Chiapa of Roe deer or in that of Cahuaré, a spa beside the river, the boats are approached that carries out the journey for the canyon. It is a trip for one of the most spectacular places in Mexico and of deep meaning for the chiapanecos.A the long of the Drain, is possible to appreciate the sedimentary strata that constitute their walls, the caves and the cascades that have been marked their derived stony form of the breakup of the limestones. Most of the cascades are temporary; among them the acquaintance highlights as Tree of Christmas."

Zona Arqueológica de Palenque

The Archaeological Area of Palenque, discovered in the XVIII century, it is located in the north of the State of Chiapas, being part of the central portion of the Mayan area that had a notable cultural development until ends of the Classic period. It is a place of excellent architectural beauty and aesthetic importance, that makes that this exceptional city, located amid the forest, be one of the most grandiose creations in the old men.

Zona Arqueológica de Yaxchilán

Yaxchilan is the prototype of a city lost in the jungle; located in the left riverbank of a capricious bend of the Usumacinta, it is high but of ten meters on the half level of the river, occupying a central position in the Selva Lacandona. The surface of the city is very extensive but its he/she visits one another it restricts at the moment to part of The Great Square, The Great Acropolis, The Small Acropolis and The South Acropolis. To The Great Square you consents through the Building 19, also known as The Labyrinth, because of the complex distribution of their rooms. In several of the constructions they are still the lintels that narrate the dynastic history of the city.

Zona Arqueológica de Bonampak

It is not possible to refer to Bonampak without making mention of their natural environment, in which the Mayan were able to live in harmony and to take advantage of their resources. It is one of the most impressive, complex and beautiful places that can be located in the Northern America. Of the group, located in the heart of the Selva Lacandona, the Great Square and the Acropolis are only explored. In the first one the magnificent Estela 1 gets up that shows Chaan Muan II dress with great luxury to take place her fifth year of government. On the Acropolis that follows the differences of the land, the building of the paintings was built.

San Cristóbal de Las Casas

Located in a beautiful area of the well-known as San Cristobal and that it is part of the mountains of the north of Chiapas, San Cristobal de Las Casas. Nowadays the city of San Cristobal of the Houses is one of the most beautiful and original of the region of the High ones of Chiapas, aspect to the one that it is necessary to add the reminiscent colonial image that has conserved to the step of the centuries. San Cristobal old and rescued colonial life left in her important cultural testimonies, mainly in architectural works of incalculable historical and artistic value.

Chiapa de Corzo

Historical city located in the right riverbank of the Big river of Grijalva, to 14 km of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. They possibly surround to the square the built portals in the XVIII century, the building of the city council and Don Angel Albino Corzo deer house in the northwest angle. Already inside their perimeter they are the secuelar pochonta, sacred tree that is related, according to the tradition, with the foundation of the city, and the tower of the clock built in the fifties and that tried to imitate the architecture of the source or pile.


 
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