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The Pirámide o Cúe de las Flores (Flowers Pyramid) belongs to dwellings founded on the mountain range of 30 meters height that surrounds the Chairel’s Lagoon according to studies done in 1944 by Ekholm. It flourished between 1000 and 1250 DC during the period known as Pánuco V and it is assumed that it was abandoned before Hernán Cortés started the conquest of the Huasteca Region in 1522.
The Flowers is a circular base with a chopped off cone of approximately 6 meters height by 36 meters wide at the base. Inside it there is evidence of 26 floors made of plaster (a mix of sand and quicklime) and 6 substructures maintaining the same basic form while building over the existent one. The researchers also identified vestiges of eleven staircases. The west staircase looks like a great ramp that comes from the basement, under this stair there are remains of six other, to the south and the north there are also remains of other four stairs with lesser dimensions. The top of this Cúe was crowned by a circular base temple with cone style roof built from tree branches and leaves following the style of the Huasteca architecture from the lower Pánuco river basin as the ones from the Cúes of Tancol, Tierra Alta and Palmas Altas. The destruction of these dwellings that this Cúe belonged to was accelerated between 1920 and 1950 when urban growth and the incorporation of the suburban areas of Colonias Águila and Flores flourished during the oil boom of the region as it happened in the past with the vestiges of other constructions from here to downtown and leaving by 1970 only this Cúe or Pyramid of the Flowers in a land lot belonging to the city. In 1991 at the request of the Tampico public administration, the National Institute of Anthropology and History also known as INAH commissioned the archeologist Arturo Guevara to take the necessary steps to safeguard the pyramid and restored for public exhibit. To accomplish this, a fence and a watch house were built as well as a metallic cover over the whole area to protect this pyramid from the weather. Years later, in 1997 there were several important works to restore and maintain the site. Bibliography source: Tampico’s Historical Archives
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