Cerro De Las Ventanas

Juchipila

This is a civic-ceremonial center with residential architecture that was occupied by the Caxcanes. It is popular for the archaeological hiking experience it offers to the visitor. To the rhythm, you walk through pieces, platforms and more structures that will guide you through the vegetation until you reach the main building.

It owes its name to the windows of the house Acantilado that is located at the top of the site. It is located in the town of El Remolino near the municipal seat of Juchipila, Zacatecas.

The archaeological work that has been done has allowed to characterize the site as the largest cultural development of the Juchipila Canyon, some radiocarbon tests have given date ranges that suggest when the occupation began at the site. Nine platforms with similar structures have been detected with open spaces limited by walls and structures on their surface since a great amount of archaeological materials have been found and it was believed that civic-religious activities took place there.

The “Casa Acantilado” is the best known element of this area, this house is so far the most southern within the tradition of buildings of this type of construction, in fact, its system is similar to that we see in other areas in addition to its appearance, although its size is very small has been mentioned that by the characteristics this point was used as a guard station but may have also had another function. Since this is the object of the tourist attraction of the site it has also been a meeting point for several generations of local visitors who used to gather and spend the night in this site making fires.