Chalchihuites

Chalchihuites is a municipality within the Mexican state of Zacatecas in northwest Mexico. The archaeological site of Altavista, at Chalchihuites, is placed 137 miles to the northwest of the town of Zacatecas and 102 miles southeast of the town of Durango. Located to the west of Sombrerete in the northwestern nook of the Zacatecas country, its miles believed that the website changed into a cultural oasis that changed into occupied extra or less continuously from AD a hundred to AD 1400. It changed into Teotihuacano ceremonial center mendacity at the Tropic of Cancer. It has a number of vital capabilities, which include petro glyphs, a processional walkway and the Hall of Columns.

It has a number of the satisfactory evidence for astronomical alignments at an archaeological website however remains poorly acknowledged. The archaeologist Manuel Gamio stated Chalchihuites as a culture of transition between the Mesoamerican civilizations and the so-called Chichimeca hunter gatherers who lived inside the arid plateau of important Mexico. Chalchihuites and La Quemada had been each outposts of Mesoamerican agreement in an ecological and cultural frontier location. However, on this transition quarter, climatic changes triggered persistent shifts inside the to be had aid base, discouraging most attempts at developing everlasting settlements.