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A overhead view of a tlayuda, the most popular Oaxacan food. It's served on a woven plate with the long green huaje pod placed on top at a diagonal. A small bowl of bright green salsa with a wooden spoon is on the side.

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A landscape view of Oaxaca City, featuring Santo Domingo Church. Layers of mountains are in the background.

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At Noche de Rabanos Oaxaca, a giant mythical figure is depicted in carved radishes. The figure's decoration are Zapotec patterns, especially along the body, legs, and multiple horns.

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At the Guelaguetza Festival in Oaxaca, a woman wearing a green and white dress with green ribbons in her hair dances with a man in white wearing a hat and red scarf around her neck.

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During Guelaguetza, one of the biggest Oaxaca festivals, women wearing bright dresses dance while holding baskets full of flowers and other decoration on top of their heads.

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Taken in the fall, the best time to visit Oaxaca, is a colorful graphic image in painted on the side of an art studio in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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