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
Museums  near Catemaco, Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico

Tres Zapotes Museum and Archaeological Zone