Cempoala
Cempoala
0.8 km
Total Distance
2 m
Elevation Gain
Trail description
A flat 0.9 km walk from the Cempoala archaeological site into the town of Zempoala. Cempoala, 'place of twenty waters', was one of the most important Totonac cities of the Postclassic period. It lies on the coastal plain 1 km from the Actopan River and 6 km from the Gulf of Mexico, and was the first urban settlement the Spaniards saw on the mainland of North America.