pueblito

This pueblito is just a few miles from downtown Puebla, but looks like a painting from an antique Mexican calendar.

Calendar of Mexican food festivals 2010

This pueblito is just a few miles from downtown Puebla, but looks like a painting from an antique Mexican calendar.

Calendar of Mexican food festivals 2010

This pueblito is just a few miles from downtown Puebla, but looks like a painting from an antique Mexican calendar.

Calendar of Mexican food festivals 2010

National holidays, religious holidays and people's santos (saints 'days) are all celebrated with gusto, as are the observances of the patron saints of virtually every city, town and pueblito.

Calendar of Mexican food festivals 2010

An unpolished chunk of rainbow obsidian from La Lobera, an isolated pueblito which has attracted the attention of obsidian buyers from as far away as China.

An unpolished chunk of rainbow obsidian from La Lobera, an isolated pueblito which has attracted the attention of obsidian buyers from as far away as China.Although most obsidian is black, a variety of colors can be found in the vast deposits of Jalisco, Mexico. © John Pint, 2009 2009

National holidays, religious holidays and people's santos (saints 'days) are all celebrated with gusto, as are the observances of the patron saints of virtually every city, town and pueblito.

Calendar of Mexican food festivals 2010

National holidays, religious holidays and people's santos (saints 'days) are all celebrated with gusto, as are the observances of the patron saints of virtually every city, town and pueblito.

Calendar of Mexican food festivals 2010

A thousand years ago, their pueblito, located 75 kilometers west of Guadalajara, was a grand city covering 500-600 hectares, and their ancestors ruled all of western Mexico from a magnificent edifice covering 15.6 square kilometers and today known as El Palacio de Ocomo.

The Tecpan of Ocomo: largest indigenous palace in Mesoamerica 2009

A thousand years ago, their pueblito, located 75 kilometers west of Guadalajara, was a grand city covering 500-600 hectares, and their ancestors ruled all of western Mexico from a magnificent edifice covering 15.6 square kilometers and today known as El Palacio de Ocomo.

The Tecpan of Ocomo: largest indigenous palace in Mesoamerica 2009

We caromed down through a pueblito of little concrete houses painted in pastels, wooden huts with thatch roofs, a whitewashed school, and a full-sized shadeless basketball court.

Kook Peter Heller 2010