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La Joya, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 3303
Housing Units (2000): 969
Land area (2000): 2.781257 sq. miles (7.203422 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.097321 sq. miles (0.252060 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.878578 sq. miles (7.455482 sq. km)
FIPS code: 40384
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 26.241996 N, 98.480138 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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La Joya

La Joya (Spanish: "The Jewel") may refer to:

United States
  • La Joya, Texas, a city
  • La Joya, New Mexico
  • La Jolla, San Diego, California, a seaside community
  • La Joya, California, former name of Green Valley, Los Angeles County, California
  • La Joya Community High School, a school located in Avondale, Arizona
Mexico
  • La Joya, Baja California, a city in the state of Baja California

  • , a town in the state of Morelos

  • La Joya (archaeological site), in the State Veracruz
Peru
  • La Joya District, a district in Arequipa Province, Arequipa Region
La Joya (archaeological site)

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La Joya is a mesoamerican prehispanic archeological site, located in the municipality of Medellín, Veracruz in central Veracruz, Mexico, about 15 kilometers from the Veracruz City, near the confluence of the Jamapa and Cotaxtla Rivers.

The site, discovered and registered in 1935, is known as “La Joya de San Martin Garabato” and comprises several earthen structures from an alleged early Olmec origin.

Remains of a continued human occupation throughout the classical period (200 BCE – 1000 CE) have been found), about 95% of the structures are destroyed by the common human carelessness and destruction.

This city probably was an important political center in Veracruz, similar to Cerro de las Mesas, with monumental stamped earthen architecture.

Two monumental platforms, apparently palatial residences, revealed a chronology during the first millennium CE, suggesting a well-organized society, providing new information on the Protoclassical (epi-Olmec) and Classical society.