Cempoala

Cempoala (or Zempoala ) was a Mesoamerican city and about 1200 AD was founded. The name means "place of the twenty waters". It was one of the largest cities on the Gulf of Mexico and the capital of the Kingdom Totonacapan. The people of the Totonac was a Native American tribe in the kingdom of the Aztecs, who lived on the Gulf Coast. At its peak Cempoala was inhabited by about 25,000 to 30,000 people. Today the city is abandoned and an archaeological site. It is located just a few miles from Vera Cruz.

The until now exposed terrain accounts for only a part of the entire system. Particularity are so far the three different brick from large boulders rings with their patch levels columns ( 43, 28, and 13 columns). Scientists assume that these rings were used for astronomical measurements to predict, for example, solar or Mondfindternisse.

In pre-Hispanic times, the Totonac were defeated and subjugated by the Aztecs. They had them tribute. When the Spaniards arrived in 1519, they were the first allies of Hernán Cortés. The " thickness cacique " Quauhtlaebana tried to strengthen this alliance, in which he forced upon his daughter Hernán Cortés as a woman.