Cuetlajuchitlán
Cuetlajuchitlán ( Nahuatl : Place the poinsettia ) is an important archaeological site in the Mexican state of Guerrero , 35.5 kilometers east-southeast of Iguala , near the village of Paso Morelos in Municipio Huitzuco de los Figueroa . The site is attributed to the Middle and Late Pre-Classical culture of Mezcala .
The site at the top of a mountain only became known in 1991 through the construction of the Cuernavaca - Acapulco motorway , when a mountain section that had begun brought finds to light and a tunnel had to be built under the site to avoid further destruction.
Of the settlement, which covers more than 35 hectares, only 2 hectares have so far been exposed. It is a spatially well-organized urban complex with an approximately right-angled network of paved narrow streets with stairs (which were not an obstacle because vehicles were unknown). The exposed areas include two ceremonial zones and three residential complexes. The remarkable finds of the ceremonial complex include several monolithic rectangular tubs with vertical side walls (today mostly broken) and inside a seat carved from the solid on the west side. They are reminiscent of similar large tubs that came to light at various sites in the border area between the states of Puebla and Tlaxcala, such as in Xochitécatl . The ceremonial function of these basins is an assumption due to the amount of work and the localization within the site.
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- Rubén Manzanilla López / Jorge Arturo Talavera González: Cuetlajuchitlán, Sitio Preurbano en la Región Mezcala . In: Arqueológia Mexicana 82 (2006). ISSN 0188-8218
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Coordinates: 18 ° 12 ′ 11.2 " N , 99 ° 12 ′ 27.2" W.