Abstract

HERNANDEZ JIMENEZ, María de Lourdes. Asentamientos arqueológicos del municipio de las Choapas, Veracruz. LiminaR [online]. 2012, vol.10, n.1, pp.122-137. ISSN 2007-8900.

The extensive routes derived from the monitoring of seismic works, paradoxically tend to be relevant to the knowledge of a region, as it is the case of the works of exploration ofhydrocarbons, in the mid basin of the Uxpanapa River, whose coverage has allowed us to register a number of pre-Columbian settlements dating from the pre-classic Olmec through to the Postclassic; This region being located in the center of the isthmus and contain a comprehensive hydrological network, it allowed the development and population movements between the Gulf and Pacific coast.

Keywords : settlement patterns; farming areas; roads; embankments; ballcourt; ceremonial centers.