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Papantla

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Papantla (päpän`tlä), town (1990 pop. 46,075), Veracruz state, E central Mexico. It is the commercial center of an agricultural region producing vanilla. Orchards are also cultivated in the area. Papantla is known for its proximity to the ruins of El Tajín El Tajín , ruins, Veracruz state, E central Mexico, representing the remains of a pre-Columbian city-state that flourished in A.D. 100–1200. The site was associated with an ethnic group called the Totonac, and its growth was at first tied with the
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The decision to present the special designation to the Danza de los Voladores de Papantla came from the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which met in Abu Dhabi in late September.
the Papantla Flyers dazzle visitors with six performances each Saturday and Sunday Every weekend in Puerto Vallarta, a group of famous Mexican performers take flight.
Synthetics have given Mexican vanilla a bad name internationally, but they have also had a demoralizing effect on our small growers who constitute the backbone of the industry," says Pastor Gutierrez Rivera, the thirty-one-year-old, onetime municipal president of Papantla and the scion of a family of former beneficiadores.
 
 
 
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