More inclusive tourism planning and visitor management at an iconic archaeological park can help address economic challenges facing surrounding communities.
After several years of research and communication with colleagues in the field, a conference was organized in March 2004 to address mounting concerns about the needs of these historic sites to ensure their preservation.
The Pimería Missions were established to indoctrinate the indigenous, peoples of the Pimería Alta region, which straddles the Mexican state of Sonora and the American state of Arizona.
Oxtotitlán, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, is one of only two known cave sites that contain polychrome murals rendered by the Olmec people more than 2,700 years ago.
For the first several decades after the Spanish colonialists arrived in Mexico, a furious convent and church building campaign began with the arrival of Christian missionaries.
The last generation of wealthy landowners to emerge in Mexico to build elaborate haciendas within huge land tracts arose during the dictatorship of Diaz, president from1876 until 1911.
The Teuchtitlán-Guachimontones site and the valleys surrounding it are the core of a recently discovered and little-known Mesoamerican cultural tradition.
A rare example of early sixteenth-century civic architecture, La Tercena in Metztitlán, Hidalgo, boasts a combination of indigenous and European architectural elements.