Tenayuca

Tenayuca ( _na. tenayōcān) is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the Valley of Mexico. In the Postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology Tenayuca was a settlement on the former shoreline of the western arm of Lake Texcoco, located approximately 10 km to the northwest of Tenochtitlan (present-day Mexico City).

By some historiographic traditions Tenayuca had been founded ca. 1224 by Xolotl, a semi-legendary ruler of a "Chichimec" tribe that had settled in the Valley of Mexico in the period some time after the 12th-century collapse of the former political hegemony in the Valley — the so-called Toltec empire, emanating from Tula. However archaeological remains recovered from Tenayuca indicate that the site had been in occupation long before this foundational event described in several of the Mesoamerican historical documents.

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