Cultural Significance San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan was an Olmec capital dominated a strategic point, allowing you to control communication and land and water transport; likewise it spreads over a large tropical, "island" bounded by large navigable rivers and floodplains in the lower basin of the Coatzacoalcos River. The oldest occupation encompasses two phases: 1) Phase Ojochi and 2) phase Bajio ranging from 1500 to 1200. C. Between 1200 and 850 a. C., population growth soared and productive and subsistence activities intensified, with a progressive interest in the cultivation of corn. One of the most notable was the change constructive activities of the land where is San Lorenzo; by millions of cubic meters of sedimentary fillings it was given a new form to the site and various levels of housing terraces were created around the top of the hill.They also began to be carved in volcanic stone sculptures whose source is in the nearby Sierra de los Tuxtlas, made thrones and colossal heads and others. San Lorenzo was home to 13 000 people before 900 a. C., with those living in communities dependent. Between 900 and 850 a. C. began abandoning the site and the surrounding region, it is likely that factors such as conflict, disease and environmental changes have contributed to this process; between 850 and 600 a. C., in the phase called Nacastre, there were about 500 people in the nearby region. It notes that since 900 a. C., had a growing recycling sculpture, which is a manifestation of the problems affecting society San Lorenzo.

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At the archeological site San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan passing Federal Highway access Acayucan-Cosoleacaque until the deviation to the head of the municipality of Texistepec, from where you take a dirt road up the congregation of Tenochtitlan, about half an hour away, which It leads to the archaeological site, which is almost entirely within the ejido of Tenochtitlan.