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Archaeological site of the Olmec civilization located in Tabasco, Mexico

La Venta

La Venta is a pre-Columbian archaeological site of the Olmec civilization located in the present-day Mexican state of Tabasco.

La Venta
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The place

La Venta is a pre-Columbian archaeological site of the Olmec civilization located in the present-day Mexican state of Tabasco. Some of the artifacts have been moved to the museum Parque-Meseo La Venta, which is in nearby Villahermosa, the capital of Tabasco.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to La Venta

Airports
Carlos Rovirosa Pérez (VSA), 130 km · General Heriberto Jara (VER), 254 km
  • Villahermosa → La Venta
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · MX$110–145
  • Veracruz → La Venta
    252 km · quickest by road, 5h 14m · MX$315–425
  • Oaxaca → La Venta
    307 km · quickest by road, 8h 13m · MX$475–630
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for La Venta

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for La Venta. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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If you know how people move in La Venta – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to La Venta

La Venta is 43 km from Coatzacoalcos, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.