Site Description

Huaca el Pueblo is a site with monumental architecture and residential areas situated in the Zaña Valley. It lies very close to the Panamerican Highway to the south of the river.

The site is dominated by a step-and-fret pyramid of about 25 meters in height.

This pyramid is associated with a series of residential and ritual platforms containing numerous rooms and corridors.

This part of the monumental structure may have constituted, among other things, residential facilities for the elite living at the site. It is suspected that there is probably a vast residential area as well but still buried under windblown sand.