<< Text Pages >> Sacapu Angamuco - Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico
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Multi-periodSite Name: Sacapu Angamuco Alternative Name: AngamucoCountry: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 70.259 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Patzcuaro Nearest Village: Chapultepec
Latitude: 19.578800N Longitude: 101.5025W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Ancient Town in Michoacán State.
Early-Middle Post Classical urban center (900AD - 1350 AD) in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin. Sacapu Angamuco has only recently been re-discovered as part of a larger project to survey the lake basin. This area was the heart of what later became the Purépecha (Tarascan) State, a political contemporary and rival to the Aztec (Triple Alliance) Empire.
Sacapu Angamuco is one of several towns known to have been built on the edges of ancient lava flows. It contains many plazas, residential dwellings, and some temple and small pyramid sites. These structures were built from the materials of the lava flow and used the natural configuration of the flow to clear areas and build in pockets which had collected soil and organic materials to allow agriculture.
Few structures are now intact. Many have been dismantaled for more modern buildings, and the area is frequently overgrown by small trees and brush.
Excavations are on-going by researchers from Colorada State University.
Ground surveys and LiDar analysis have revealed 20,000 structures and an estiate of a population of 25,000.
The location given is for a temple area designated BG-20.
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