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Alta can be reach by the new Auto pista from Tulancingo Hidalgo , before the first toll booth and head towards Tuxpan on the old highway , in a few miles follow the signs to Pahuatlan on the left. In Pahuatlan ask for directions

Maria captured here from video taken 1994, she sold me a costume, made handmade tortilla and let me record Nahua and took Vivian and I to see some ancient painting on chalk cliffs nearby.

A typical Pepinada embroidery design, a reverse type of embroidery. The women of Atla embroidery many different things, lots of napkin and table cloths and commercial type blouses.

Embroidering a pepinada piece

White gauze patterned quechquemitl.