Origin The official name of this archaeological site is that of Huijazoo, although it is locally known as Cerro de la Campana. Huijazoo in Zapotec means "Fortress of War". Importance The occupation of the city is Zapotec and the moment of greatest splendor occurs around 300-800 d.C., during the Monte Alban stage IIB-IV. The most important buildings were built at this historic moment and civic-ceremonial center area compose architectural ensembles composed by pyramidal bases and rectangular staggered platforms that are grouped around courtyards and open spaces such as squares; in addition to a ball game. In the next sections have been found remains of houses with stone foundations, utensils and tools for daily use where ordinary people lived. A unique architectural feature of its kind is called Tomb 5, considered until now as the building's funeral elaborate and majestic of the Zapotec culture. The entrance to the tomb stone facade framed with ornament of a stucco mask representing the open jaws of a snake from which emerges a bird; the antechamber represents a scale design of a courtyard surrounded by temples painted; the walls are covered with stucco and decorated with murals showing characters in procession with symbolism marked with signs and calendar dates related to ancestor worship and ritual narrating events and the transition to the afterlife, the ruler or priest perhaps there He was buried.

Hours: Monday to Sunday from 9:00 to 18:00 hours.

Centro INAH Oaxaca 01 (951) 5 13 33 46, May 13 33 52 00 May 15 04 May 15 00 02. CP Manuel Rufino Aguilar, Chief of Security and Oaxaca INAH Center archaeologist. Cuautle Augustine E. Andrade, Coordinator of the Department of Archaeology.

Recommendations: It is important to visit the area with clothing and comfortable shoes, because you have to walk a slope of about 200 m. . long and bring natural water only.

It is located 27 kilometers (17 miles) northwest of the city of Oaxaca. Access is through Federal Highway 190 heading toward Mexico City, on which must travel about 25 kilometers, and on reaching the town of Santiago Sulchiquitongo enter through the arch of this population welcomed . 2 kilometers (12 miles) is traversed to get to the street leading to the church El Calvario and hence this is taken towards the North, advancing 2 Km. On an asphalt road and unpaved, to the foot of the rock mass where it sits in nuclear area of this ancient Zapotec city.Services available The archaeological zone is not now open officially to the public, so it does not have any services or infrastructure to care for sightseeing, with only . two people in custody to provide general information and assistance on site if necessary.