Tequixquiac - Sports & Entertainment

Sports & Entertainment

The first sport practiced in Tequixquiac has been the charrería, when the Spanish first settled in this town, they were under orders to raise horses, but not to allow indigenous to ride. The hills of Tequixquiac had used by cows and rams, the Spanish had very large haciendas and found it necessary to employ indigenous people as vaqueros or herdsman, who soon became excellent horsemen.

When arrived the building workers for the Channel of Tequixquiac (second channel), racquetball is a sport practiced in this township and was brought by workers in the tunnel since 1938. In Barrio de San Mateo, there is evidence that previously played in front wall of the engineers who built Tequixquiac Tunnel and ports, this area is called the pediment precisely. Today is played racquetball at Deportivo 11 Brothers of Necaxa, site at north of town (Tlapanaloya road cross) and other sports as soon as baseball and basquetball.

Part of the heritage of the engineers also, we left the baseball is still practiced by elderly adults as Arnaldo Paez Navarro is 74 year-old Don Felix Vasquez Flores. Today is played baseball at Deportivo El Salado, site near to La Cinco and other sports as soon as fuotball soccer and basquetball.

At Campo Zaragoza is a sporting area in Santiago Tequixquiac where is practiced basquetball, football soccer; here is also a Cultural Center in Campo Zaragoza where is practice also Tae Kwon Do, as a new sport in this town ship. The municipality has pasted outside sports, where practice in of horsemanship, mountain biking, and also has private gyms and swimming school (Pixan kay) units are technically "sports ".