The Cóporo word of Tarascan origin meaning "on the high road or the big road." Cultural Importance The Cóporo is a settlement with traces of an ancient Mesoamerican city as it was composed of a number of villages around the hill, whose inhabitants cultivated corn, squash, amaranth, tomatillo, beans and chile, part of their staple diet, near springs and streams that existed were venerated in ancient times. Besides its location northwest of the State of Guanajuato, between the valley and the forest area was strategic because it granted protection as well as access to different resources. This prehistoric settlement, which has an architecture developed 1.500 years ago, composed Breakfast for ordinary people and a ceremonial civic center is associated with the tradition Tunal Great (200-900 AD). In conjunction with this, the worldview of its ancient inhabitants partly inferred from the organization of architectural spaces.

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You need to take from the city of Ocampo, the state highway leading to the city of Leon (Plate 2), 20 km. is the town of Ibarra, where he began an asphalt road to the community of San José del Torreon. Then crossing the dirt population continues to Cerro El Cóporo.