Cuahilama
| Name: | Chuahilama Hill Ceremonial Center |
| Location |
Xochimilco, Mexico City Mexico
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| Coordinates | 19°14′30″N 99°04′15″W / 19.24167°N 99.07083°WCoordinates: 19°14′30″N 99°04′15″W / 19.24167°N 99.07083°W |
| Culture | Xochimilcas |
| Period | Late mesoamerican Preclassical - 1200–1500 CE. |
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| Decline | |
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| INAH Official Page | Non existent |
Cuahilama is a Hill and an archaeological site located south east of Santa Cruz Acalpixca, in the Cuahilama neighborhood, near the Xochimilco Archaeological Museum. It was a ceremonial center, in the hill are prehispanic images engraved in basaltic rock.
The “Cuahilama Cerro” or Cuailama, is located at “prolongación 2 de abril” Street, between streets Cacalanco and 3 de mayo, very near the Santa Cruz Acalpixca town. In the Xochimilco borough, south east of México City
The Xochimilco area was inhabited by Preclassical groups Cuicuilco, Copilco and Tlatilco (1500-200 BCE), and subsequently, in the period Classical period, by the Teotihuacano (CA. 200 BCE-700 CE).
Apparently, Acalpixca was founded by the xochimilcas around 1254 CE, the first nahuatlacas tribes arrived from Aztlán in the north to the Anáhuac Valley in 1265 CE, the first Xochimilca Lord, Acatonalli, founded the village on the Hill Cuauhilama. Between 1450 and 1521, Santa Cruz Acalpixca was a small village, although capital of the area, it was during this period that the petroglyphs were made.
Those settlers were farmers, founded the settlement with Acatonalli, its first ruler, who while facing food shortages proposed before the Council of elders, placing wooden rods filled with organic dirt, thereby over the water, creating the Chinampa in the Lake, agricultural method that has been transmitted from generation to generation since prehispanic times until the present day, they produced corn, chile, beans, pumpkin and flowers as well as other crops.
From Cuahilama, the Xochimilcas would have extended over the southern shore of the Xochimilco lake, the islets of Tláhuac and Míxquic, and towards the Ajusco-Chichinauhtzin mountain range.
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