Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico

Tres Zapotes Museum & Archaeological Zone
Type: federal museum
Municipio: Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz
Location: Tres Zapotes
Nearest major city: Santiago Tuxtla
Admission: $24 pesos ?
Worth visiting?
Yes, if you like history, country driving or are a
headhunter
no hotel but a very basic restaurant

Notes:
Head within pueblo is a new sculpture.
Head outside museum is a mold.
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Museum:
closed Mondays
open Tues - Sun 9-5
admission 24 pesos ?

The Santiago & Xalapa &
Mexico Museums
"appropriated" a lot of
Tres Zapotes' treasures!
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It was in 1862 while visiting the region of San
Andres Tuxtla, a town of the state of
Veracruz, in Mexico; and during some
excursions I made, that I heard of a colossal
head which had been disinterred a few years
before ...

Melgar 1862 - good read!
Zapotes are a brown fruit
resembling an oversized
avocado. Unlike avocadoes their
pulp is very sweet. Have 3!
antique abuse
 hands on museum
Stela C
contains the oldest or maybe second oldest
written  date of the Americas,
found in Tres Zapotes
but housed in Mexico City
References:
INAH - Zona arquaeologica de Tres Zapotes
LatinamericanStudies - Museum Collage
How to get there:

From Santiago Tuxla, south of bridge, take road west  to Isla, then app.
8 km later, at a badly marked intersection, turn north onto potholed  road
to Tres Zapotes (March '05). About 48 km from Catemaco.

Nice waterfall on south side just before turnoff