Guiengola - hillfort Indian Mexicans who lived on the territory of the present state of Oaxaca. The ruins of the tower between the eponymous hill and the river. The name of the ancient city of the Zapotec dialect translates as "big stone".

Guiengola constructed in the postclassic period (1350 - 1521) and was the fortress that protected from the Aztecs, who never managed to capture it. When the Spaniards invaded the town and evicted the Zapotecs, conquerors and settled, the city was dead and in ruins.

Here were found the walls of various buildings, fragments of houses and fields for ball games, tombs and the largest "Palace" with the remnants of man-made reservoirs and extensions.

The largest tomb is located in the Palace, the administrative center of the Zapotec fortress. Her camera more than 9 meters in length and slightly less than 2 meters in width. On the sides of the Central passage, which is 1 meter in width, there are two cameras.

So far excavated two large tombs, which are likely places for family burials. In two tombs has a front facing camera, which were built for idols, and the back camera for the burials. But there are other smaller tombs, they were found among the walls of the fortifications, remains of houses. In the center of the settlement was once two pyramids on the East and West, and two squares, one below the other, arranged one above the other.