MAJOR PUBLIC PYRAMIDAL BUILDING WITH SUNKEN CIRCULAR PLAZA F

Building with a quadrangular plan and a stepped pyramidal volume, with ceremonial rooms at the top, and a sunken circular plaza, attached to the base; 129 m long, 117 m wide and 27.81 m high. It was built on the side of one of the mountains surrounding the settlement.

The sunken circular plaza has circular rings stepped in the front part and a semicircular platform in the rear middle part, as well as stairs located in the center, to enter and exit. Other stairs, of smaller dimensions, were located on the small platforms in connection area between the circular square and the pyramid.

A central staircase, encased in the main façade of the building, facing southwest, leads to the top of the building, where they erected a ceremonial hall with benches, a back enclosure and a higher room; all of them with other annexes.

With the Public Pyramidal Building of Sunken Circular Plaza H1 a public space was defined in the settlement.

The building was made with stones with angular sides (andesite, granodiorite and sedimentary rock), joined with beige and gray clay mortar, mixed with ground shell valves. Fine beige plaster was applied for the finish. The construction deposits used cut stone and gravel, of different sizes, mixed with earth and sand.

Two corpses of children were found in the deposits contained by the walls of the sunken circular plaza. They were wrapped in mats, and had been placed as offerings during the construction processes.

The following was recovered during the excavations: an unfired clay sculpture, stone axes, plates, projectile points, hammers and digging sticks, among others.

Bone remain.

FINDINGS IN THE MAJOR PUBLIC PYRAMIDAL BUILDING WITH SUNKEN CIRCULAR SQUARE F