Tenochtitlán was established in about 1500 A.D. The rulers made their people build a treasure city by constructing a mesa of 300 hectares (over 700 acres) and 50 meters high. There they built worship sites and sacrifical sites. There are more than 200 mounds in the immediate area. We saw some of them and a couple of pyramids, as well.


The land is generally flat. You can see the mesa from quite a distance.


The man on the left hand of Elder Collins says that he was part of the team which excavated the Olmec head in 1994. Most of the artifacts are in larger museums in Mexico City and Xalapa. The missionaries are Elders Jimenez, Brandt, Holman, Sosa, Hernandez, Collins, Ricks, and Cifuentes.