Among the structures that can be visited today are those that make up the oldest and most important part of Chiapa de Corzo: Buildings 1, 5 and 7 and 32.

Building 1: It is the largest construction of the ancient city of Chiapa de Corzo. It is a wide base made of carved stone and covered with stucco that received multiple modifications between 300 and 100 B.C. It was built on the remains of adobe houses of an older residential area. Its main function was religious, since several of the most important temples of the place must have been built on top of it.

The transcendence of this building is denoted by the fact that some of the rulers and elite of the site were buried here, whose tombs were richly adorned with objects of great symbolic value. A selection of these objects are exhibited in the archaeological room of the Regional Museum of Chiapas, in Tuxtla Gutierrez.

Building 5: It was built around 100 B.C. and was modified several times between that date and 400 B.C. It is a relatively low platform that in the upper part presents the remains of several stuccoed rooms. Hundreds of high quality plates and vases were recovered from this building and deposited as an offering on the floor of the rooms of one of the last construction stages. Such an offering was part of an ancient ceremony of renovation of the building, since after that it was intentionally burned and then renovated. For its number of rooms and its offerings, it has been suggested that it was the residence (or palace) of the rulers of Chiapa de Corzo.

Building 7: It is one of the largest structures of Chiapa de Corzo. Together with Buildings 1, 5 and 8 it forms the central plaza of the ancient Zoque settlement. It was partially excavated without clearly defining its function. For some constructive elements present in the high part, for example remains of double rooms, it is believed that it had religious function as a temple, although, given its dimensions, it could have been the place where the houses of the rulers were located. It is also known as “The Acropolis” or “Palace Mound”.

Building 32: Located at the intersection of the Panamerican Highway and the Libramiento Norte of the current city of Chiapa de Corzo, it consists of a foundation for a temple and the remains of several rooms at the base of it. It was built at the beginning of our era and expanded several times between the years 100 and 200, using slabs and carved limestone. It is one of the structures that mark the northern limit of the archaeological site of Chiapa de Corzo. It must have been the main temple of one of the neighborhoods or partialities of the pre-Hispanic Zoque settlement. Unlike the buildings of the constructive nucleus (the area where Buildings 1, 5, 7, 12 and 13 are located), the base of Building 32 does not show facades decorated with moldings, but smooth and sloping, although it does have the typical wide staircase limited with double alfardas that characterizes the Zoque architecture of Chiapa de Corzo.