INAH closes archaeological zone in Mazatlán for the second “Culiacanazo”

In a statement via Twitter, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced that the archaeological area of las labradaslocated near MazatlanIt will be closed until further notice. The announcement was made within the framework of the second “Culiacanazo” and the recapture of the drug trafficker Ovid Guzman.

The archaeological zone of las labradas It is located in the coastal strip of the municipality of San Ignacioin the south of the state of sinaloa51 km north of Mazatlan and it was given that name due to the amount of petroglyphs that exist between the surface of the sand and part of the sea.

This site differs from others archaeological zones for being on the beach, where you can see more than 700 rock engravings made on volcanic rocks with motifs of plants, flowers, animals and geometric figures that, surprisingly, the sea has not damaged.

The settlers who inhabited the area took advantage of the natural forms of the rocks to carry out their engravings and leave a trace of their daily life, and various representations of human faces were also made in some corners, another important characteristic of the archeological site.

Since 2012, the Mexican government has promoted this archaeological zone to the Unesco to be recognized as a World Heritage Site due to its historical value and its various particularities, in addition to the antiquity of its engravings, which date back 700 years.

During the early morning the operation began to capture again Ovid Guzman, son of “Chapo” Guzmán, for which throughout the state of Sinaloa there were blockades on streets and highways with vehicles set on fire and shootings, the work of organized crime. Due to this situation, the authorities asked citizens not to leave their homes.