Cuetlajuchitlán

Cuetlajuchitlán ( Nahuatl: Place of the poinsettia ) is an important archaeological site in the Mexican state of Guerrero, 35.5 km east-southeast of Iguala, near the Paso Morelos in the municipality of Huitzuco de los Figueroa. The site is attributed to the medium and spätpräklassischen culture of Mezcala.

Situated on the top of a mountain locality became known only in 1991 by the construction of the highway Cuernavaca - Acapulco as a started mountain average finds brought to light and to avoid further destruction, a tunnel had to be built under the locality.

Of the more than 35 hectares of land covering settlement only 2 ha have been uncovered so far. It is spatially well-organized city system with a nearly perpendicular arranged network of narrow paved streets with stairs ( do not present a problem, since vehicles were unknown). The exposed areas include two Zeremonialzonen and three residential complexes. Among the notable finds of Zeremonialkomplexe include several monolithic rectangular trays with vertical side walls (now mostly broken ) and inside one was carved out of the solid seat on the west side. They are reminiscent of similar sized tubs that have come to different sites on the border between the states of Puebla and Tlaxcala as in Xochitecatl to light. The ceremonial function of this basin is an assumption based on the amount of work and the places within the locality.