Guiengola is a Late Postclassic (14th–early 16th centuries CE) Zapotec archaeological site located near Santo Domingo Tehuantepec in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. The site occupies a strategically elevated landscape overlooking the Tehuantepec River system and is widely known in historical accounts as a fortified settlement associated with conflict between the Zapotec and Mexica polities during the decades preceding Spanish colonization.
Guiengola is a Late Postclassic (14th–early 16th centuries CE) Zapotec archaeological site located near Santo Domingo Tehuantepec in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. The site occupies a strategically elevated landscape overlooking the Tehuantepec River system and is widely known in historical accounts as a fortified settlement associated with conflict between the Zapotec and Mexica polities during the decades preceding Spanish colonization.
Archaeological research has demonstrated that Guiengola was not only a military stronghold but a substantial urban settlement. Systematic pedestrian survey and airborne lidar mapping have documented an occupation area of approximately 360 hectares containing more than one thousand architectural features, including civic-ceremonial buildings, elite residential compounds, neighborhoods, road systems, terraces, and defensive walls. The architectural core, or epicenter, includes plazas, ballcourts, and large residential complexes associated with governing elites.
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