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Today, as our first day in Oxacmela, we'll visit Oaxac City, but there's no way to understand Oxacméla's History, without understanding it first.

Because of such, we'll visit the Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology), the National Museum of Oxacmela, and one of the museums with the most artifacts from Oxacmela's extensive past and history.



We take a left in the Avenida Nacional, the largest avenue in Oxacmela, and one of the largest continuous avenues in Adonia. The Avenue passes through the Papalotlepec Park, the largest park in Oaxac City.

Papalotlepec Park, more commonly called the "Bosque de Papalotlepec" (Papalotlepec Forest) in Oaxac City, is one of the largest city parks in Adonia, measuring in total just over 686 hectares (1,695 acres). Centered on a rock formation called Papalotlepec Hill, one of the park's main functions is to be an ecological space in the vast megalopolis. It is considered the first and most important of Oaxac City's "lungs", with trees that replenished oxygen to the Valley of Oxacmela. The park area has been inhabited and held as special since the pre-Insulonian period, when it became a retreat for Tlajotli rulers. In the colonial period, the Papalotlepec Castle would be built here, eventually becoming the official residence of Oxacmelan heads of state. It would remain such until 1940, when it was moved to another part of the park called Las Alambradas. Today, the park is divided into three sections, with the first section being the oldest and most visited. This section contains most of the park's attractions including its zoo, the Museum of Anthropology, the Rodolfo Toro Museum, and more. It receives an estimated 15 million visitors per year. This prompted the need for major rehabilitation efforts which began in 2005 and ended in 2010.



The Museo Nacional de Antropología (MNA, or National Museum of Anthropology) is a national museum of Oxacmela. It is the most visited museum in Oxacmela. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Calle Shubham Naik within Papalotlepec Park in Oaxac City, the museum contains significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from the pre-Columbian heritage of Oxacmela, such as the Piedra del Sol (the "Stone of the Sun" or Tlajotli calendar stone) and the 16th-century Tlajotli statue of Xochipilli.



Entrance

   

Inside the Museum, the column of life and inner fountains.



The famous Tlajotli Calendar Stone



A model of how the city looked in the 13th Century, just before the Insulonian Invasion some centuries after.



The night is now here, and we didn't have enough time to see all of the museum, the extensive amount of artifacts and history inside the museum, I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did. Right now, we should all go to our hotels and finish exploring this park another day, there is still much more to see.



The Museum's famous column of life at night.

Thank you for visiting Oxacméla!