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Located in the vicinity of the city of Colima. This site was the largest prehispanic population center in western Mexico. Site studies indicate that some of its features are related to the classical period Teotihuacan culture. Vestiges of Capacha phase ceramics, dating from the year 1500 BCE were found onsite.
A very early culture in Colima was Capacha culture, developing in the region between 2000 and 1200 BCE. El Chanal is located four km north of the city of Colima. It is a complex of pyramid platforms with stairs, a Mesoamerican ballcourt and a number of plazas.
This site is the heart of the ancient Mesoamerican Capacha Culture. The Capacha Culture peoples were located between the Jalisco Sierra Madre Occidental and the Colima Valley. Several sites in the region have relations with Capacha, such as the Embocadero II site (800 BCE) in the Mascota Valley, which has a background with the shaft tomb tradition.
The city and territory was made part of the state of Jalisco when it was established, with the city remaining the capital of the Colima province. The city tried to gain independence from Jalisco as a new state, but was denied. [11] Anastacio Brizuela continued to work from 1823 to 1824 to separate the city and its province to make it a separate ...
Reconstruction of excavated shaft tomb exhibited at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico.. The Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition refers to a set of interlocked cultural traits found in the western Mexican states of Jalisco, Nayarit, and, to a lesser extent, Colima to its south, roughly dating to the period between 300 BCE and 400 CE, although there is not wide agreement on this end date.
Teotihuacán, 200 BC–800 AD, near Mexico City; Teuchitlan tradition, 300 BC – 500 AD, north-central Jalisco; Toltec, 900–1100 AD – may be mythical; Totonac, unknown–1500 AD, eastern Mexico; Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition, 1500–300 BC, Michoacan, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit
El Chanal is an archaeological site located at El Chanal town, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north of the city of Colima, Mexico.Based on its extension, over 50 hectares (120 acres), it is probable that it was the largest settlement of the state of Colima; it developed on both banks of the “Río Verde” or Río Colima.
It was active from the mid-16th to the 19th centuries and stretched over 2,600 km (1,600 mi) from north of Mexico City to Santa Fe in today's New Mexico. This serial site comprises the Mexican part of the route, in the length of 1,400 km (870 mi), with an ensemble of 59 properties, such as mines, towns, former convents, bridges, and former ...