"Split rock or steep." Tepexi means comes from the Nahuatl tetl, stone and Pexic words, split or cut Importance The site served as head of one of the most important popolocas manors; It was occupied from 1300 d. C. until the Conquest, Shirley Gorennstein defined three phases based on the analysis of architecture and pottery: - (. 1350-1450 AD) Phase Huichi (. 1300 1350 AD), and Phase Phase Xaqua Toyna (1450 AD -. Conquest). The core of the site is a walled fortress, which is located at the confluence of two deep gorges (140 meters); one of them is the riverbed The Xamilpa or Lazamilpan, giving much greater strategic importance, since this river is permanent tributary of Atoyac. The area consists of a wall surrounding the exposed archaeological structures, consisting of squares and ceremonial mounds, which clearly accuses a military fortress.

Tepexi Old archaeological site available services in this area there are archaeological rest areas, camping and mini-guide Castillo Tejero, Naomi, INAH-CNCA , Mexico, 1991.

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At the archaeological site Tepexi El Viejo, accessed via Highway No. 150, to Tepeaca; nine kilometers after the deviation is taken Tepexi Rodriguez and two kilometers ahead of the Moralillo hamlet, part a gap leading to the site. From Rodriguez Tepexi part a dirt road about 16 kilometers leading.