REVISTA DEPORTE MESOAMERICA ACTUALIZADA 1

It is called Pre-Hispanic Mexico to the historical period before
the arrival of the Spaniards on Mexican soil, which includes
the Preclassic Horizon (2000 BC to 200 AD), the Classic
Horizon (200 to 900 AD) and the Post-Classic Horizon
(900 to 1521 AD), approximately.
The present work consists in making known the Pre-Hispanic
Sports that are currently practiced, their origin and importance
in the Pre-Hispanic Culture and having a historical reference
through Museums, books, archeology magazines, vestiges pyramids,
sculptures, paintings, codices, In Pre-Hispanic Mexico and
the entire territory comprised in Mesoamerica, the activities that
provided food and defense were vital for survival..
This tradition of long distance foot races was very present in the
Pre-Hispanic games since, among other activities, the postal system
was based on relays, in present-day Mexico this custom of
distance races and resistance are still carried out in Tarahumara
groups and Yaquis in northern Mexico today. It appears in the
Cuicateco Codex, known as the Fernández Leal Codex, where a career
sequence appears.
In the seven villages that inhabited the Anahuac Valley in the Mexican
Highlands, a necessary activity was practiced since six of them
were located on the banks of a lake and the seventh practically the
center of it (the Aztec).