Capacha
Sign in to saveCapacha is an archaeological site located about 6 kilometers northeast of the Colima Municipality, in the Mexican state of Colima. This site is the heart of the ancient Mesoamerican Capacha Culture.
Key facts
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- Capacha culture extension Map
- Archaeological site.name
- Complejo Capacha
- Archaeological site.type
- Mesoamerican archaeology
- Archaeological site.location
- Colima, Colima
- Archaeological site.region
- Mesoamerica
- Archaeological site.cultures
- Capacha
- Archaeological site.built
- 2000 to 1000 BCE
- Archaeological site.epochs
- Mesoamerican Preclassical, Classical, Postclassical
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20 sectionsContents
- Background
- Culture origin
- Discovery
- Capacha Culture
- Cultural Stages
- Cultures Chronology
- El Opeño
- La Campana
- Los Ortices Complex
- Armería & Colima Complex
- El Chanal Complex
- Important Aspects
- Capacha Ceramic
- Shaft Tombs
- South America
- Notes
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Capacha is an archaeological site located about 6 kilometers northeast of the Colima Municipality, in the Mexican state of Colima. This site is the heart of the ancient Mesoamerican Capacha Culture.
The Capacha Culture peoples were located between the Jalisco Sierra Madre Occidental and the Colima Valley. Several sites in the region have relations with Capacha, such as the Embocadero II site (800 BCE) in the Mascota Valley, which has a background with the shaft tomb tradition. There is also evidence of green stone articles, Jadeite cylindrical beads and possibly Amazonite, as well as Turquoise fragments.