• El Conde

    El Conde
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  • El Conde

    El Conde
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  • El Conde

    El Conde
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  • El Conde

    El Conde
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  • El Conde

    El Conde
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El Conde

Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00 h - Last access 16:00 h
Fee
Adress

Ozumba Street 15, Colonia El Conde, Municipality of Naucalpan de Juarez, C.P. 53500 State of Mexico.

Access

In Mexico City, take the Periférico Norte beltway in the direction of Unidad Cuauhtémoc, exit at Primero de Mayo Ave., turn right onto J. F. Kennedy, Andrés Atoto and Ozumba, as far as the junction with Texcoco.

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Important
  • Extra fee for professional cameras
  • No smoking
  • No entry with food
  • Pets not allowed

El Conde

El Conde

El Conde

Located in Naucalpan de Juárez, not far from the Periférico Norte (highway) in the northern suburbs of Mexico City, this site offers something unusual, a palace belonging to the fifteenth century pre-Hispanic nobility, one of the few examples of the civic architecture of the period.


The El Conde archeological site in the district and municipality of Naucalpan de Juárez presents a large square platform. The history of the settlement goes back to the final stage of Teotihuacan (600-800), since fragments of ceramic material have been found from this period. Remains from the Toltec period (800-1100) and Early Postclassic (1200-1430) have also been found.

This great platform might also have been the site of a palace or tecpan because there is an east-west oriented access stairway, on both sides of which rooms were appended, a very common feature for this type of construction. The architectural shape of the platform is typical of the palaces found in the Valley of Mexico in the Late Postclassic, as can also be seen in several pre-Hispanic and colonial codices, including the Quinantzin Codex.


 


 

Palacio o tecpan

It is conformed by a rectangular platform and has a main axis of east-west orientation; it measures approximately 62 m long and 39 m wide.

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    nahum_noguera@inah.gob.mx
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    sonia_sosa@inah.gob.mx
    +52 (722) 213 9581

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