Archaeological sites in Puebla. Cantona  Cantona means "House of the Sun" and is a megalopolis of architectural complex was one of the cities with the.

Presentación del tema: "Archaeological sites in Puebla. Cantona  Cantona means "House of the Sun" and is a megalopolis of architectural complex was one of the cities with the."— Transcripción de la presentación:

1 Archaeological sites in Puebla

2 Cantona  Cantona means "House of the Sun" and is a megalopolis of architectural complex was one of the cities with the highest degree of urbanization.T he site covers about 12 square kilometers for study was divided into three broad units and worked the south, which is the best preserved, it is the Acropolis Among the most significant archaeological sites but less known is the central highland of Cantona, which is reached via highway 129 that passes through Free. From there you get to Tepeyahualco to take the road to Cantona, located about 115 kilometers from the state capital.

3 Cuetzalan  Cuetzalan City is a town nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Norte de Puebla. It is the county seat of Cuetzalan Progress, one of the 217 municipalities in the state of Puebla. It is located 183 kilometers from Puebla de Zaragoza, the capital of Puebla.   One of the main features of the city is that its streets are large and marked pending. It was incorporated into the system Magic Towns Resort in 2002. Its value lies in the development of Indian life with large populations that retain their way of life, as the indigenous development of radio to the area, or the value of the extensive anthropological rising market on Sundays. Few tourism services consumption profile as restaurants, craft stores, cafes, bars and nightclubs

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5 Cholula  Cholula is a city in the state of Puebla and is part of the Valley of Cholula, located in the central-west of the state of Puebla at an altitude of 2,220 meters above sea level, is the origin cholula Nahuatl and means Location those who. There are two places nearby Puebla and México.

6 Tepexi the old  Tepexi the Elder is an archaeological site is located in the municipality of Rodriguez Tepexi, southern Mexican state of Puebla. It is the site of an ancient pre-Columbian city was founded by the popolocas a otomangueana speaking people whose descendants still live in the eastern part of the Mixteca Baja Puebla and Tehuacan Valley.

7 Yohualichan  Yohualichan, un importante centro ceremonial, proviene de la voz náhuatl que significa “la casa de la noche”. Los primeros ocupantes del recinto fueron los totonacas; quienes crearon los nichos que están asociados con la luz y la oscuridad, la noche y el día, la vida y la muerte.  Por su tipo de arquitectura con abundantes nichos, la ciudad se remite a la zona arqueológica de El Tajín, en el estado de Veracruz. Yohualican se encuentra ubicada a 8 kms. del municipio de Cuetzalan y fue construida en el año 400 d.C. por los totonacos. El asentamiento prehispánico ocupó una extensión similar a la del pueblo actual. En el norte y sur del sitio se observan modificaciones en el suelo, sobre el cual se levantó un gran número de terrazas de cultivo además de pequeños templos. Los pobladores de aquel tiempo basaban su economía, principalmente, en la producción agrícola.

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