Teotihuacan was founded in an unusual position for its time with respect to the settlement pattern typical of the Basin of Mexico during the Middle Preclassic. Most of the larger settlements in the region were located on the banks of the Anahuac lake system or very close to it. Cuicuilco and Copilco in the south; Ticomán, El Arbolillo, Zacatenco, and Tlatilco in the north; and Tlapacoya in the east are examples. In contrast, Teotihuacán rose fifteen kilometers from the shore of Lake Texcoco, on the San Juan River in the valley that has taken the name of the city. Duverger states that the location of Teotihuacan corresponds not only to an ecological frontier, but to the frontier between the Mesoamerican agricultural civilization and the cultural world of the nomadic arid American peoples.
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