The Ixtlán del Río site is believed to have been established in about 300 BC and occupied until the arrival of the Spanish in the early 1500s. I won't attempt to discuss the people who lived there and their way of life. For us, it was a privilege to see the structures that remain and marvel at the skill of those who built them.
Wikipedia describes the most striking of the structures:
- One of these temples has a road paved with stone slabs, which leads to the round monument, discovered in 1948 by Prof. José Corona Núñez who eloquently describes his discovery, stating: "the round monument has 30 meters in diameter by 4 meters high;" sloped walls crowned by a perforated parapet with crosses, as if skylights, four access stairs . . . some of them still have cross shaped handrails.
Detailed description is available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtl%C3%A1n_del_Rio_(archaeological_site)
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