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By air:
the Capitan Carlos
A. Rovirosa International Airport, at 15 kilometres from
Villahermosa, gets an average of 300 weekly flights coming from
the main cities of Mexico, and also from the United States.
The domestic flights come from the cities of Mexico DF (the
capital of the country), Veracruz (State of Veracruz), Oaxaca
(State of Oaxaca), Tuxtla Gutierrez (State of Chiapas), Merida
(State of Yucatan), Cancun (State of Quintana Roo) and Puebla
(State of Puebla).
Regarding international itineraries, Villahermosa gets daily
flights coming from Houston and Texas, in the United States, and
from the City of Havana as well, though they are less frequent.
Some of the airlines landing in Villahermosa are Aeromexico,
Mexicana, Aerocaribe and Aviacsa, amongst others.
Once at the airport, travellers will find a series of services,
such as modules providing tourist information, bank and
financial offices, public phone booths, medic service 24 hours a
day, installations for the disabled, shops and restaurants.
In order to get to the city centre, choose between the taxis and
the units of public transportation (minivans and collectives)
that are parked on the outskirts of the air terminal.
By land:
All
the roads, or almost, lead to the City of Villahermosa, a forced
stop for those travellers going to the Yucatan Peninsula (in
southeast Mexico), or to the border with Guatemala (east side),
by land.
For this reason, an efficient system of federal highways
connects it with the neighbouring cities and with the border
pass to Guatemala. But this is not all; the road system includes
secondary roads that lead to the interior of the State of
Tabasco.
In total, the road system of Tabasco stretches for 8222
kilometres of highways (amongst federal, state and municipal),
being one of the states with the best road infrastructure in the
country.
In order to access Villahermosa coming from the City of Mexico,
one has to take Federal Highway 180; the trip is south-easterly
bound and the Cities of Puebla and Veracruz, amongst others, are
crossed during the 863-kilometre journey.
The vehicles bound for Villahermosa from the City of Mexico, set
off from the Passenger Bus Terminal of the Orient (TAPO),
located on 200 Zaragoza Street, San Lazaro Metro.
If you are on the Yucatan Peninsula, you must follow Federal
Highway 180, though in the opposite direction, meaning from east
to west.
By sea or river:
It is not a usual way
of arriving in Villahermosa, though nonetheless vessels of
different sizes and private yachts anchor sporadically at the
off shore port known as Dos Bocas.
Likewise, the course of the Grijalva River, which runs alongside
the city, connects Villahermosa with several minor towns,
located on the riverbanks of the powerful torrent. |