Sunday, July 6, 2008

Local Pyramid... El Cerrito

One day our friend, Yaid, took Billy and I to some local ruins right in the middle of a town, Pueblito, close to Queretaro. They are called "El Cerrito", which means "little hill" in Spanish, because for a long time people didn't know that ruins existed in the area, they thought it was simply a small hill in town. After finding that the hill was actually a pyramid covered by vegetation, they kept the name. Apparently these ruins are quite historically significant. After the Spanish conquest, some rich Spanish dude with an ego built his mansion on top of the pyramid...the remains of which are still there, as you can see.

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