mogote

On the north shore, a young local couple, Javier and Maria, run El Mogote, a chic cafe and nautical centre with kayaks to rent and the world’s best view.

The carved cadaver in San Jose Mogote may give a hint.

In Mesoamerican cultures, the date of one’s birth was such an important augury of the future that people often acquired Discovered in 1975, this prone, disemboweled man was carved onto the stone threshold of a temple in San Jose Mogote, near the city of Oaxaca.

This seems to have been the case for the man whose death was celebrated in the San Jose Mogote temple.

San Jose Mogote seems to have transplanted itself to Monte Alban, in the middle of the buffer zone.