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The Balsas River valley was possibly one of the earliest maize growing sites in Mexico, dating from around 9200 years ago. [4] Though it is known that successive communities of Yopis, Nahuatl-speaking Cohuixcas, Matlatzincas, Chontales, Tlahuicas and Xochimilcas have lived in the region, archeological excavations in the area have yet to establish the hierarchical succession of the various ...
History [ edit ] Based on excavations in Guerrero, examination of looted artifacts, and excavation of Mezcala artifacts at Teotihuacan, archaeologists have given the name "Mezcala culture" to a Mesoamerican culture that was based in the present-day southern Mexican state of Guerrero , [ 1 ] in the upper Balsas River region. [ 2 ]
The Balsas is a tributary of the Tuira (or Darien) river. [1] It rises on the border with Colombia and flows north and then northeast to its confluence with the Tuira. [2] Its headwaters flow through the Darién National Park. [3]
Mezcala culture, also referred to as the Balsas culture; Mezcala de la Asuncion, a Coca people village in the municipality of Poncitlán, Jalisco (Mezcala (Jalisco) ) Isla Mezcala, in Lake Chapala, in Jalisco, and Michoacán. Río Grande de Santiago, begins at Lake Chapala and drains it; Río Lerma, ends at Lake Chapala and fills it
The Nexapa River is a tributary of the upper portion of the Balsas. The Amacuzac River enters the state from the State of Mexico. It passes under the Grutas de Cacahuamilco, then reemerges to form part of the border between Guerrero and Morelos. The Tepecoacuilco or Huitzuco River forms within the state and is a tributary of the Balsas. The ...
The Balsas River and Lerma River begin in the heart of the Cumbres del Ajusco. The mountains are constituted of perforated volcanic rock inhibiting surface rivers to form, but there are many subterranean rivers that feed fresh water springs in the lower areas of the park and in the surrounding valleys.
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These materials show that the site was then a small village - perhaps dependent on a larger Olmec-related culture (Mezcala) settlement in the Balsas River region during the mid-preclassical era (800-1000 BCE), or, as it seems more likely, that it was inhabited by people who settled here around 600 BCE, at the decline of the Olmec sites. [2]