Papantla

Papantla is a town and municipality located in the north of the nation of Veracruz, Mexico, inside the Sierra Papanteca variety and on the Gulf of Mexico. The city changed into based in the 13th century by the Totonacs and has ruled the Totonacapan area of the kingdom in view that then. This is the house of vanilla, which is native to this location, the Danza de los Voladores and the El Tajin archeological website, which become named a World Heritage Site. Papantla nevertheless has sturdy communities of Totonacs who maintain the tradition and language.

The city incorporates a number of big scale murals and sculptures finished by way of native artist Teodoro Cano Garcia, which honor the Totonac subculture. The call Papantla is from Nahuatl and most often interpreted to intend "location of the papanes". This meaning is reflected in the municipality's coat of palms. The vicinity in which Papantla is found has been dominated with the aid of a number of pre-Hispanic cultures. The first regarded is that of the Olmec, with the Huastecs coming afterward. Evidence of those cultures can be discovered at nearby archeological sites which include Cempoala, El Tajin, San Lorenzo and Tres Zapotes.