Cerro Tláloc

Cerro Tláloc is a mountain and archaeological site in central Mexico. It is located in the State of Mexico, in the municipalities of Ixtapaluca and Texcoco, close to the state border with Puebla. Formerly an active volcano, it has an elevation of 4,158 metres, thus being the ninth highest mountain of Mexico.

The mountain was considered by the Nahuan peoples, foremost among them the Aztecs, to be specially sacred to the raingod Tláloc. In fact, the mountain was believed to be one of his primary earthly dwelling places, called Tlālōcān. Attribution of this and other mountains to the sacred presence of rain deities predates the Aztec era by centuries, even millennia.