Voladores de Atla
Otomí-Totonac volador team from the village of Atla in the municipality of Pahuatlán, Puebla; one of the canonical groups inventoried in the federal Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial registry.
Maintains the volador ceremony in the Sierra Norte tradition rather than the Papantla variant.
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