In fact, Peñafiel (now owned by Keurig Dr Pepper), a well-known soft drinks manufacturer, extracts water from these wells for use in their products.

The municipality is the second largest producer of table eggs in the country with over 25 million layers housed plus a significant production of broilers for chicken meat.

These textile factories principally put together blue jeans for export to companies such as The Gap, Guess, Old Navy, and JC Penney.

Another important geographical factor to consider about the region of Oaxaca and Tehuacán valley is the telluric area where the city is located.

Tehuacán is surrounded by the Neovolcanic Axis that covers the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Mexico, Hidalgo, Morelos, Tlaxcala, Puebla and Veracruz.

Tehuacan offers a diversity of attractions, from outside activities to historical places and museums that keep years of history not just from the region but from ancient times and establishment of the Mexican Republic.

The most popular places to visit are: Peñafiel and Garci Crespo Natural Springs Underground galleries that are the production facilities for the famous mineral water known as “Agua Tehuacan”.

This is part of a natural process as a result of snow melting from the volcanoes which contain a high level of minerals, making it bubbly.

The transition from nomadic hunting and gathering to a settled, agricultural way of life in Tehuacan valley has been the subject of extensive study.

MacNeish and his team tested 15 caves, then concentrated on 6 named El Riego, Tecorral, San Marcos, Purrón, Abejas, and Coxcatlán.

Named for Purrón Cave, where they first appeared, these monochrome Mexican ceramics resembled (and briefly coexisted with) the stone bowls.

More recent evidence supports Balsas River valley as the first place in the world where maize was first domesticated about 9000 years ago.