Xitle (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xitle is a volcano on the outskirts of the Ajusco range near Mexico City. It is an ash cone volcano with a conical form, round base, altitude of approximately 300m, and a slope between 30 and 40 . Xitle registered its last eruption in 400 A.D. Among the consequences of this eruption were the formation of the Pedregal de San Angel, to the south of the Mexican Federal District. Cuicuilco, one of the most refined cities of Mesoamerica was destroyed by one of Xitle's eruptions in 50 BC and was covered by lava. The subsequent diaspora of the Cuicuilcans, and the attendant diffusion of their culture across most of central Mexico, influenced important cultural changes in the nearby power center of Teotihuacan.