Because of its location, it is widely known as squares, because the land where the remains belong to the town of San Juan el Alto Squares, municipality of Penjamo, Guanajuato is located.Previously the site was known by the name "Casas Tapadas" probably because the corners are collapsed some buildings and one can observe the earlier stages of the slope-board. So attention, first written about this prehistoric settlement until 1981-1982 mention appears under the name of "El Cobre no. 38 "established by Sergio Sanchez and Gabriela Zepeda, who during their field trips Pipeline-section Salamanca-Guanajuato project Degollado found him. Thereafter, it is traversed again as part of the work of the National Archaeological Atlas of Guanajuato state in 1988, being registered under the name of "El Cobre". In 1997 Carlos Castaneda and Daniel Juarez submitted to the Council of Archaeology project called "Squares Archaeological Project" whose main objective was the research and restoration of the site for opening to the public;from the moment the site is, first recognized as squares, and on the other redefined in terms of its structure, proposing as a unit that integrates the sites referred to in the AANEG as "E Cobre", "The Cross", " squares "and the Cajete". Importance Cultural Squares is a site located in the foothills of the Sierra de Penjamo, Guanajuato. It is a settlement that like others in northern Mexico were not directly affected by the decline of Teotihuacan hegemony in the nuclear area of Mesoamerica, however these settlements were helped to strengthen their business networks and mastery of their territories that although small, enjoyed political stability. Nestled on a gentle hilly crossed by two streams the site consists of a ball game on the west side, while the east is a structure located annular locally known as "The Cajete" and a set of three pyramidal bases. South is another ball game that communicates via a driveway with an ensemble with pyramidal bases and sunken courtyard which is locally called "Casas Tapadas" and that is the most important architectural ensemble of the archaeological site. One of the particularities of this site is that on one of the slopes of the hill there is a large rock outcrop that was used by the ancient inhabitants of Squares to record a series of geometric and zoomorphic well as models, one of which reproduces faithfully the architectural ensemble of covered homes. Chronology: 600-900 d. C. Location main chronological: Late Classic, 600-900 d.

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Following the Federal Highway No. 110 Pénjamo-La Piedad, you reach the village of Buenos Aires, continue along a dirt road just over 3 km, which leads to the hamlet of San Juan Upper Squares. If you go by public transport from Mexico City will have to take a bus that takes you to Pénjamo. In Pénjamo the bus "Coordinated Service" is taken to La Piedad.