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Catemaco, Veracruz Mexico Photography by Bill Bell Catemaco is a city in t The city of Catemaco resides against Lake Catemaco at 340 meters (1,115 feet) altitude and is surrounded by numerous taller volcanic peaks. To the north, Laguna Sontecomapan occupies a large flood plain and joins the gulf at La Barra de Sontecomapan, Catemaco's most accessible beach. One of the featured attractions of the
town are the "Monkey Islands", populated by abandoned research monkeys
originally i Mel Gibson recently filmed parts of Apocalypto (2006) in the vicinity. He joined Sean Connery's Medicine Man (1992) and many others who have used the Catemaco vicinity as a backdrop for jungle scenes. Witchcraft festival Historically an isolated community, the city now has an international reputation for the "Catemaco Brujos", a local phenomenon of witchcraft practitioners with commercial interests. The Spanish term "brujo" may be translated as witch, sorcerer, warlock, necromancer, "alternative healer", faith healer and others. Catemaco celebrates an annual brujo festival on the first Thursday and Friday of March. It is called the "Congreso Internacional de Brujos ".
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