Panoramic of Monte Albán.

At 10 Kms of the City of Oaxaca, this is an impressive site by its zapoteca architecture, its hard construction with hundreds of years.

Old capital of the zapotecos, was occupied uninterruptly 1200 years, from 500 A.C. to 750 D.C., soon to be occupied by the mixtecos to shortly before the Spaniards. In their splendor, Monte Albán occupied a surface of 6,5 kms. Squares and counted on an approximated population of 40,000 inhabitants.

 

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