La Huasteca
Spring Break 2004
Geography Classes
The University of Texas at Brownsville



 
 

Cascadas de Tamul, March 19, 2004


Rancho Cielito



 
 

Front Range of the Sierra Madre Oriental
Rancho Cielito, Tamaulipas, March 21, 2004

 
 
 
Getting dinner ready, Rancho Cielito

 
 
Dinner at Cielito


 

River Trip
to
Cascadas de Tamul, Rio Tampoan, San Luis Potosi


 

Shrine at home of Catarino Guevara.  Sra. Guevara had
recently passed away.

Nati and Elizabeth get ready for
river trip.


 

Here's the crew, hiking down to the Rio Tampoan, getting ready to row!



 
 

Rowing on the Rio Tampoan, passing small spring cascading into river.

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Left - entering the Canyon of the Rio Tampoan; Right - Viewing Cascadas de Tamul



 
 

Left - Dr. Gene Paull, Javier and Mary Garcia, Cascadas de Tamul, March, 1995
Right - Dr. Gene Paull, Cascadas de Tamul, March 19, 2004

 
 
 
 
Left - Javier Garcia, March 19, 2004
Right - Nati Betancourt

 
 
Getting ready to head downstream

 
 
Cave on the banks of the Rio Tampoan

 

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Dinner at Hotel La Quinta Mar, Ciudad Valles, S.L.P.,
March 19, 2004

 

Huastecan Market at Aquismon, San Luis Potosi
March 20, 2004



 
 

Fruits and vegetables for sale, Aquismon, San Luis Potosi, March 19, 2004



 
 

Huastecan woman in traditional dress



 
 
 

Market Vendor


 

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Nati Betancourt and Friend in front of
municipal building, Aquismon, San Luis Potosi



 
 

Fieldtrip group at Aquismon


Las Pozas de Xilitla
(Edward James' Castle)



 
 

The foreboding "castle," engulfed in tropical rainforest



 
 

Left - Guys at the Waterfalls
Right - Nati at the Waterfalls



 
 
 


 
 
Mona makes a new friend at Las Pozas



 
 

Las Pozas or pools

 

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More falls, notice students at top of cascades.



 
 

Mark takes a shower


Walkways and gardens at Las Pozas



 
 
 
 
 

Surrealistic Art at Las Pozas



 
 

Stairway to Heaven



 
 
 


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