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So, the Monarch Butterflies migration for this year is coming to an end - they are returning to the forests of central Mexico where they will over-winter. The festival of the Day of the Dead is celebrated on November 1st and it's usually at this time that the Monarchs are seen in the region. To many they are viewed as the returning souls of dead ancestors for this is what the indigenous legend says.
Homero Arijiis, a reknowned poet and currently ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, has many fond memories of the Monarch migration because he grew up in one of the many villages near the site of over-wintering Butterflies.
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