Mexico City, November 27. While supervising the construction of an overpass on one of Mexico City's main arteries, Chapultepec Avenue, a team from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered remains of a pier and a canal from the pre-Hispanic era , on what was once the beach of a peninsula located at the foot of Chapulín Hill .
In a statement issued by the INAH, it is reported that the group of specialists, headed by María de Lourdes López Camacho, head of the Chapultepec Forest, Hill and Castle Archaeological Project, dedicated to the study and analysis of the archaeological remains of the area, identified several sections of the artificial channel, as well as a small port, where they suppose canoes must have arrived and departed towards Lake Texcoco .
The researcher considers this discovery a stroke of luck in an area that has been heavily affected since the late 19th century, when the San Miguel Chapultepec Indian village disappeared. Last year, vestiges of a pre-Hispanic settlement were discovered next to the Chapultepec station of the Metro, next to the building that formerly housed the Ministry of Health.
He added that the settlement, dating from the Late Postclassic period (1200-1521 AD), located in 2023, is located in a direct line with the canal. "There was a road through which the inhabitants accessed this main thoroughfare; often, the 'water roads' ran parallel to the dirt roads."
