Lambityeco

Lambityeco is a Zapotec archaeological site in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, occupied from around 700 BC to 750 AD. The settlement comprised about 200 mounds across 188 acres, serving as a major marketplace and salt production center. Excavations of Mounds 190 and 195 revealed elite residences with lifelike stucco representations and large stone-and-mud masks of Cocijo, the Zapotec rain god. The site rose to prominence as Monte Alban declined, before its population likely relocated to nearby Yagul around 750 AD.