Plazuelas

Plazuelas is a prehispanic archaeological site located just north of San Juan el Alto, some 2.7 kilometers (1.7 miles) north of federal highway 90 (Pénjamo-Guadalajara), and about 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) west of the city of Pénjamo in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. The site is open to the public; it is dominated by a large, rectangular plaza with several pyramidal structures and platforms, along with a massive ball court. To the north of the structures is a field of boulders with thousands of glyphs carved into them. The original settlement was considerably larger, with a large, circular structure called El Cajete marking its eastern extent. According to INAH, site remains and evidence confirm the influence of many cultures merging on this site, although it is not certainly known who constructed this city, INAH believes the hunter-gatherer Chichimecas inhabited the Bajio region at the end of the postclassical period, and that many other sedentary cultures lived here before, but these cultures are not mentioned nor identified. Plazuelas (600–900 CE) is located in the same municipality as the site of Barajas (? – 1000 CE) and some 46 kilometers (29 miles) west of Peralta (100 – 900 CE). These three cities were all settled in the Mesoamerican classic period, hence it is possible that they shared constructors, inhabitants, religion, governments and traded as part of a common "B

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