The inhabitants of the nearby village of Santa Ana Tepetitlán refer to these ruins as Iztepéte, which means "hill of obsidian." In an old document, undated, it says that his name is Itztepec, derived from the same name applied to a stream and a hill on the banks of which the town is located. The Iztépete should be the correct name under in neighboring Sierra Spring, there is abundant obsidian. However, since 1964, it has been designating the area with another etymology. Ixtépete, would amount to "hill of maguey fiber ixtli or" Cultural Significance This site is located in the valley of Atemajac, within the metropolitan area Guadalajara. He is credited with an important commercial activity especially with regions such as the Altos de Jalisco, or La Quemada, in Zacatecas. The population that inhabited it was strongly hierarchical, and around small neighborhoods of specialists in ceramics, stone artifacts and other settled. The first area enabling shared the tradition of the shaft tombs with most of western Mexico. Subsequently, the material culture of this settlement, elements of the culture of the Mesoamerican Classic as the slope and board, and distribution of three temples surrounding a courtyard in the architecture, or the vessels annular base in ceramics is integrated and stylized representations of Quetzalcoatl Teotihuacan II type and figurines. Chronology: 400-900 d. C. Location main chronological: Late Classic, 600-900 AC.

Services available in the area: It has a health module.


Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17 : 00

Contact: Jalisco INAH Center 01 (33) 36 13 82 24 and 36 14 54 16.

The site is located on the extension Av Mariano Otero, approximately 100 meters west of the junction with the peripheral, in the city of Guadalajara.. By public transport you can access the site by taking bus route 626, which part of downtown Guadalajara.