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  2. Colima - Wikipedia

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    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. A distinctive feature of the site are stones with glyphs that are found on stairways ...

  3. La Campana (archaeological site) - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Capacha Culture - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of pre-Columbian cultures - Wikipedia

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    Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition, 1500–300 BC, Michoacan, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition , 300 BC–400 AD, Jalisco, Nayarit, and, to a lesser extent, Colima Zapotec , 500 BC–1500 AD, Oaxaca

  7. Colima (city) - Wikipedia

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    Colima (Spanish pronunciation:), located in central−western Mexico, is the capital of the state of the same name and the seat of the municipality of the same name, which is the easternmost and third largest municipality in Colima behind Tecomán and Manzanillo.

  8. El Chanal - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Shaft and chamber tomb - Wikipedia

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    The Colima culture has had an agrarian reputation. Most shaft tombs as well as the Colima culture have stored religious art in their tombs. Figurines of animals and people are stored in the shaft tombs of Colima. These figurines are known as Colima flats. [2] [better source needed] Among the Mexica (Aztecs) of highland Mexico, dogs were ...