Chalchihuites Ruin or Alta Vista ruin, deliberately placed on the Tropic of Cancer by the Teotihuacan culture

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Chalchihuites or Alta Vista as the ruin is called has been examined by Archeoastronomer Anthony F. Aveni and found to contain solar significance and a deliberate placement on the Tropic of Cancer by builders of the Teotihuacan culture. A solar equinox alignment and a summer solstice alignment of the sun over a distant mountain at dawn and two Teotihuacan style petroglyphs led to the conclusions that Alta Vista was a Teotihuacan ceremonial outpost at the northern limit of Mesoamerica

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Location: Chalchihuites, Alta Vista Ruin Site, Zacatecas, Mexico
Photo credit: © David Hilbert / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: ., alignment, alta, archeoastronomy, cancer, chalchihuites, culture., ruin, solstice, summer, teotihuacan, tropic, vista