Zaachila

Zaachila in Zapoteco way First daughter of the earth. The archaeological area of Zaachila 1200 and 1521 AD changed into a City-State, and one of the few Mixteco Zapotec capitals still inhabited at the arrival of the Spaniards. The archaeological quarter of Zaachila is placed in the Villa of Zaachila, located within the Central Valleys of Oaxaca at coordinates 16 ° 56 'north latitude and 96 ° 45 west longitude, at a top of 1,520 meters above sea degree, at a distance of 18 km from the metropolis of Oaxaca.

Zaachila borders to the north with Jalpan and San Pedro l. A. Reforma, to the east with the Hacienda de Tlanichico and Noriega, to the south with Trinidad Zaachila, to the east with San Pablo la Raya and Mantecon. Zaachila become founded by means of the Zapotecs, in all likelihood on the time when the construction of Monte Alban additionally commenced and the village of San Jose Mogote was flourishing. Although there are few stays of the ancient Zapotec website which have survived to nowadays, they permit us to observe that Zaachila was a population that still played a crucial function at some stage in the Classic Period of the Zapotec culture.