Guanajuato, Mexico · North America
Buenavista de Cortés sits on the route: 10 minutes from La Estrella.
Buenavista de Cortés is a town located in Guanajuato, Mexico. With a population of 1,368, it is an important destination in North America.
On a road trip, Buenavista de Cortés sits in Mexico, where you drive on the right. It's in the America/Mexico City time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Buenavista de Cortés to your route.
Plazuelas is a prehispanic archaeological site located just north of San Juan el Alto, some 2.7 kilometers (1.7 miles) north of federal highway 90 (Pénjamo-Guadalajara), and about 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) west of the city of Pénjamo in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. The site is open to the public; it is dominatedRead more
by a large, rectangular plaza with several pyramidal structures and platforms, along with a massive ball court. To the north of the structures is a field of boulders with thousands of glyphs carved into them.
The original settlement was considerably larger, with a large, circular structure called El Cajete marking its eastern extent.
According to INAH, site remains and evidence confirm the influence of many cultures merging on this site, although it is not certainly known who constructed this city, INAH believes the hunter-gatherer Chichimecas inhabited the Bajio region at the end of the postclassical period, and that many other sedentary cultures lived here before, but these cultures are not mentioned nor identified.
Plazuelas (600–900 CE) is located in the same municipality as the site of Barajas (? – 1000 CE) and some 46 kilometers (29 miles) west of Peralta (100 – 900 CE). These three cities were all settled in the Mesoamerican classic period, hence it is possible that they shared constructors, inhabitants, religion, governments and traded as part of a common "Bajio Tradition".
Very little is known about these societies inhabiting the Bajio Region, they are thought to have been members of hunter-gatherer, fishing Chichimec groups, it is now known that these places were trading confluence routes between central Mexico with northern and western Mesoamerica.
Over 1400 years ago, in addition to Plazuelas, there were other five known important cities in the region; San Bartolome (Tzchté), San Miguel Viejo, Tepozán, Loza Los Padres and Peralta (Mesoamerican site). Circular structures confirm the Tradition constant ancient relations with other civilizations. Circular structures are common across prehispanic Mesoamerica.
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Buenavista de Cortés is located in Guanajuato, Mexico, North America. The coordinates are 20.3723 latitude, -101.8704 longitude.
Buenavista de Cortés has a population of approximately 1,368 people, making it a town in Mexico.
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