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The ruins are situated along the north bank of the San Esteban River, a tributary of the Río Grande de San Miguel which flows into the Pacific Ocean. The site is located 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west-northwest of the town of San Miguel. [8] Quelepa is 13 miles (21 km) north of the neighbouring site of Los Llanitos. [9]
Suspected extension of the historical Lenca people. Since pre-European times the Lencas occupied various areas of what is now known as Honduras and El Salvador.The Salvadoran archaeological site of Quelepa (which was inhabited from the pre-classic period to the beginning of the early post-classic period) is considered a site that was inhabited and ruled by the Lencas.
The ruins of these missions remain as sites of archaeological interest. [3] [4] The mission complex was designated a Pueblos Mágicos site in 2015. [5] In 1703 a presidio, or fort, was established at San Juan Bautista.
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La Campana is an archaeological site included in the Mexican archaeological heritage list since 1917. Located in the vicinity of the city of Colima. This site was the largest prehispanic population center in western Mexico.
Macaw Pens at Paquimé, Chihuahua. The distinct facets of Mogollon culture were recorded by Emil Haury, based on his excavations in 1931, 1933, and 1934 at the Harris Village in Mimbres, New Mexico, and the Mogollon Village on the upper San Francisco River in New Mexico [8] Haury recognized differences between architecture and artifacts from these sites as compared with sites in the Hohokam ...
La Pintada is an archaeological site located some 60 kilometers south of the city of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, within the "La Pintada" canyon, part of the "Sierra Libre", a small mountain massif of the coastal plains that extends throughout the Sonoran Desert.
[3] [6] The researchers plan further fieldwork, [6] describing the ruins as "hidden in plain sight" only a 15-minute walk from Federal Highway 186 near Xpujil and cultivated farmland. [4] [5] The researchers named the site "Valeriana", after a nearby lake named Laguna la Valeriana. [2]