Mexico City - Cuicuilco

About 3.5km/2.2mi south of the Olympic Stadium and immediately beyond the underpass below the Anillo Periférico, a road branches off on the left to the archaeological site of Cuicuilco (Náhuatl: "place of singing and dancing").

Probably first established by a farming community of the Formative period (900-700 bc, Cuicuilco enjoyed its heyday between 600 and 400 bc, when it must have played a dominant role in the region and had a population of some 20,000. As its rival town of Teotihuacán grew in importance, however, Cuicuilco became less so, and the site was finally abandoned before the final eruption of the Xitle volcano c. 50 bc; presumably the inhabitants moved to Teotihuacán and Tlapacoya.