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Tehuacalco, Guerrero archaeological zone inaugurated
José Juan Delgado • Milenio Guerrero • January 2009
• The 80-Hectare pre-Hispanic complex,12 of them of monumental dimensions, are located at the ejido (a Mexican form of ownership of agricultural or livestock breeding land) of Carrizal de la Vía, at the junction of the municipalities of Juan R. Escudero and Chilpancingo, in the central region of the state.
Tourism Minister, Rodolfo Elizondo Torres and Guerrero state governor, Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo, along with Alfonso de María y Campos, director of the INAH (National Institute of Anthropology and History) inaugurated the archaeological zone of Tehuacalco in which over 38 million pesos have been invested.
 The 80-hectare pre-Hispanic complex, 12 of them monumental, is located in Carrizal de la Vía, within the limits of the municipalities of Juan R. Escudero & Chilpancingo, in the state’s central region.
The site dates back to the post-classic period, between years 1200 and 1300 a.d. a settlement of the Yope culture, a feudal political unit including 9 monumental structures that include a palace and the main site, this including a ramp, as informed by INAH archaeologist Pablo López Sánchez.
According to the academic, Tehuacalco was a site consecrated to water as tell the spiral petro glyphs symbolizing water sources and waterfalls, as well as representations of water God Tlaloc; arrowheads and ceramic pieces have also been found.
The works started three years ago with an investment of 40 million pesos, 12 of which were funded by the federal government and the rest by the government of the state of Guerrero.
The INAH researcher explained the four objectives of the projects: The architecture and pre-Hispanic structures; the petro glyphs and rituality; the botanical part and its unique species, and finally, the landscape.
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