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Oaxaca description: VanDam's news 2023 STREETSMART® Oaxaca maps all top attractions, archeological sites, museums, colonial churches, artisanal market towns, hotels, restaurants, mezcal bars, and ecotourism sites at an immensely legible scale complete with 3-D relief of the Sierra Madre mountains. Clear information design allows users to read the map from three feet away and has earned VanDam maps a place in the MoMA Collection. The map is film-laminated, accordion folded and pocket-size. Coverage: Oaxaca State Map 1:1,500,000; Valles Centrales Map: 1:230,000; Oaxaca City Map: 1:11,000; Puerto Escondido Map: 1:10,000; Puerto Angel Map: 1:10,000; Huatulco Map: 1:11,000; Monte Albán Map: 1:3,600; Dimensions: 4 x 9 folded, 9 x 24 unfolded, fits into shirt pocket or purse. STREETSMART® Oaxaca is so legible you will instantly understand how the regions, main highways, and towns connect from the artisanal villages in the Valles Centrales to the Afromexicano communities & superb surf beaches of the Costa Chica, from the matriarchal culture of the Istmo to the baroque Dominican churches in the Mixteca and the cloud forests of the Papaloapám. STREETSMART® Oaxaca focuses in from God's perspective to the most minute details with eleven recommended drives: Ruta de Mezcal, Artesanal, Biósfera, Café, Chinantla, Costa, Ecotourism, Mazateca, Mixe, Mixteca, and Ruta de la Fe. The 15 major languages are mapped as is a list of the best in archeological sites, baroque churches, pottery and weaving communities, ecotourism, magic mushroom destinations, coffee plantations, mezcal towns and more to help you make the right decisions. For surfers and beach goers all major Pacific beaches are listed and rated.In Oaxaca's capital city, Oaxaca de Juárez, you may find yourself on the Alcalá in Centro Historico looking for restaurant Origen to taste Lechon with Chicatanas (suckling pig with peppery ants). You want to visit Monte Albán, the famed Zapotec mountain top city, to decipher