It is a small but significant pre-Hispanic enclave located in the San Pedro de los Pinos neighborhood, Mexico City. Its name, of Nahuatl origin, means "where the cloud serpent is worshiped."

The site had a privileged location, since it was close to a large lagoon, as well as the rivers and streams that descended from the mountainous area located to the west of the city. In the Mixcoac area you can see several buildings, among which the main basement or pyramid stands out, its central patio that has a rectangular platform to the north with evidence of a stucco floor; In addition, there are walls of rooms and other constructions. The site was identified and described for the first time in 1916 by the historian Francisco Fernández del Castillo, who named it Mixcoac upon finding said toponym on the Map of Uppsala or Santa Cruz prepared in 1550. Subsequently, and derived from protection actions to prevent the looting of the site, Manuel Gamio entrusted archaeologist Eduardo Noguera with the archaeological excavation to rescue and interpret the site in 1920.