Zacatecas Dazzling!

Cerro de a bufa From the eastern side of the capital, the iconic Cerro de la Bufa welcomes all those who want to enjoy an authentic Zacatecan experience. There are beautiful landscapes that make for amazing photos, plenty to take in for history buffs, an adrenaline rushes for the brave.  To really enjoy these three experiences, you can do a circuit to cover them all. Start at the mine, take the cable car and, finally, summit La Bufa on a fourwheel drive or go down the ravine on a zipline. Be sure to spend some time at the esplanade’s lookout: from there, the views of the pink city are breathtaking. El Eden mine This experience begins underground, with a tour of El Eden mine. Aboard an under ground train, visitors pass through tunnels and galleries, and enter the heart of Mexico’s mining and silversmithing history. Cable Car Coming back up from the depths of the un – derground, the next step is to see Zacatecas from the opposite perspective: the air. El Edén mine has an exit that leads directly to the cable car to the heights of La Bufa. The ride in the glass-floored cabin offers a fullblown panoramic […]

Millenary History – Chalchihuites Considered the northern border of Mesoamerica, this archeological zone’s culture developed one of the oldest representations of the National Emblem on record. Its name comes from its discovery on the grounds of an old ranch called Alta Vista or Buena Vista, very close to the mining town of Chalchihuites, that’s why its second name, whose last word is a word of Nahuatl origin meaning green stone. This pre-Hispanic city extended from the years 200 to 1100 of our era through the northwest of Zacatecas and south of Durango. Some astronomical studies indicate that this area’s location is associated with its proximity to the Tropic of Cancer. It has also been proven that the city is designed using a triangulation, as follows – The cumbre de Picacho Pelón 11 km to the east – The Cerro Chapin 7 km to the southwest – Colina del Pedregoso 5 km to the northeast This location allows them to observe the annual movement in the sun, and so they could anticipate the changes of seasons in the course of the agricultural cycle. At the top of Cerro Chapín, there are 2 “petroengraving” of circles-crosses with calendar beads very similar to […]

The Earliest Settlement In Zacatecas – Teúl de González Ortega  Cerro de Teúl was one of the main pre-Hispanic ceremonial centers in the South of Zacatecas and maintained an uninterrupted occupation for approximately 1,600 years. This site is distributed in the hill’s northeastern slope, where you will find the Main Square, the Sunken Patio, and the Game Court. Until not long ago, the Cerro del Teul located in the inhabitants was only one of the last bastions of the brave “caxcans” fighting against the Spanish invasion. This site had one of the first industrial areas in the continent where they produced copper and ceramic crafts; various archaeological types have been found, such as shell and greenstone beads and earrings with Teotihuacan motifs and polychrome codex style ceramics. With 150 hectares in which there is only one exploration in 5 to 6 hectares, it is open to the public since 2018. In all this time, 2 pyramids and a portion of a ball game have been discovered and several human burials that reveal changes in the funeral ceremonies. At the site, a life-size pre-Hispanic skeleton was found, which represents a decapitated ballplayer from the years 900 – 1100 A.D.; it is […]