The Guadalajara Reporter

Tapalpa’s Pueblo Viejo ruins: A major archaeological discovery

Steve Stanton was born in Mexico, studied in the US and is perfectly bilingual. He has lived in Tapalpa for some 20 years and because he was actively involved in tourism for many of them, I felt he was the perfect person to ask about interesting sites in the area, off the beaten track.

“Actually,” he said, I have just come back from a place called Las Yácatas, where I was taken to some curious mounds. These seem to be the remains of both rectangular and circular monuments. I wonder if some of them might be Guachimontones built by the Teuchitlán Civilization.”

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