🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Malinalco Archaeological Zone
Aztec Late Postclassic 1476–1501 CE · Aztec (Mexica)
Rock-cut Cuauhcalli temple 1501 CE, eagle-warrior initiation.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Aztec Late Postclassic 1476–1501 CE · Aztec (Mexica)
Rock-cut Cuauhcalli temple 1501 CE, eagle-warrior initiation.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Rock art
Classic (c.250–800 CE) Maya Petén – Río Bec fringe · Maya (Petén – Río Bec transitional)
El Resbalón ('the slide') is a hilltop Maya city and open-air epigraphic cliff 35 km SW of Xpujil in the Calakmul Biosphere south at 250 m.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Postclassic Aztec (Chichimec-Mexica) · Chichimec / Aztec (Tenayuca-Culhua-Mexica)
Aztec double-stair serpent pyramid Tenayuca (1224–1500 CE): 21 m six-stage twin-shrine pyramid encircled by 138 coiled serpent heads wall, INAH sequential casing showcase.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Epiclassic Mesoamerica 650–900 CE · Post-Teotihuacan Central Mexican (Xochicalco–Cacaxtla sphere, Maya artists?)
Epiclassic hilltop city 650–900 CE after Teotihuacan fall: leveled ridge with 9-m high Quetzalcoatl Pyramid covered 360° with exquisitely carved plumed serpent panels intertwined with seated Maya…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Postclassic (c.1200–1519 CE) Totonac – Late Classic foundations · Totonac
Cempoala (Nahuatl Cēmpoalātl, place of twenty waters) is the lowland Totonac metropolis on the coastal plain at Úrsulo Galván, Veracruz, at 10 m asl.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Classic – Epiclassic (c.400–850 CE) Chalchihuites – Coyotlatelco frontier · Chalchihuites – Canutillo / Teuchitlán-related frontier
Alta Vista Chalchihuites in northern Zacatecas is Mesoamerica's far-northern Venus frontier town at 2,190 m on the Tropic of Cancer.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Epiclassic – Postclassic (c.530–1040 CE) Bajío – Otomi–Toltec: Lerma tradition · Lerma – Bajío / Otomi
Cañada de la Virgen in the Laja valley saddle near San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, is a mountaintop Epiclassic observatory-city (530–1040 CE) of the Bajío–Otomi tradition at 1,950 m.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Postclassic Aztec (1337 – 1521 CE) · Tlatelolca / Mexica
Tlatelolco in Mexico City, Mexico is a Late Postclassic Aztec (1337 – 1521 CE) ancient city attributed to Tlatelolca / Mexica culture. Tlatelolco market described by Díaz: 60,000 daily, tribute.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Classic Veracruz (600 – 900 CE) · Classic Veracruz
El Zapotal in Veracruz, Mexico is a Classic Veracruz (600 – 900 CE) temple complex attributed to Classic Veracruz culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Preclassic – Terminal Classic (c.300 BCE–950 CE) Río Bec – Chenes transition · Maya (Río Bec–Chenes–Peten fringe)
Pol Box is a jungle pyramid town on the karst plateau 48 km south-southwest of Xpujil in the Calakmul Biosphere fringe, Campeche, at 260 m.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Classic Veracruz (Epiclassic) 600–1200 CE · Classic Veracruz / Totonac (? predecessor)
Classic Veracruz capital 600–1200 CE with unique architectural style: 7-tier pyramid 18 m high (365 niches one per solar year, 365× depth shadows), flying cornices and scroll greca frieze, ballcourt…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Epiclassic 650–900 CE · Epiclassic central Mexican
Fortified hilltop Pyramid of Plumed Serpents, zenith cave, UNESCO 1999.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient port
Postclassic (c.1200–1519 CE) East Coast – Mayapan league; Late Classic hamlet antecedents · Maya (East Coast Coastal)
Xcaret (ancient Polé) is the walled Postclassic port-temple town on a Caribbean caleta 5 km south of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, at 8 m.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Preclassic / Late Formative (Central Mexican Preclassic) · Cuicuilco (Basin of Mexico Preclassic)
Giant circular stepped pyramidal platform at Cuicuilco — 135 m diameter 20 m high 700–150 BCE, buried by Xitle lava eruption 245 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Hydraulic works
Late Postclassic Aztec (1400 – 1521 CE) · Acolhua (Texcoco)
Texcotzingo in State of Mexico, Mexico is a Late Postclassic Aztec (1400 – 1521 CE) hydraulic attributed to Acolhua (Texcoco) culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Postclassic East Coast (1200–1520 CE, occupied to contact) · Maya (East Coast – Ecab / Cuchbalam)
Postclassic coastal town (1200–1520 CE) directly in Cancún Hotel Zone at km 18 on barrier island between Nichupté Lagoon and Caribbean: ~40 platforms, colonnaded halls and Pyramid Structure 2 (9 m…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic 580–800 CE (mural phase 790–800 CE) · Maya (Usumacinta Basin, dependent of Yaxchilán under Shield Jaguar III)
Small Usumacinta tributary Maya center (~1.5 km²) world-famous for Temple of the Murals (Structure 1): three vaulted rooms with 110 m² of brilliantly preserved frescoes (c.790 CE ‘1000-year pigments’…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Classic to Early Postclassic (300–1200 CE, walls 900–1200) · Maya (Tojolabal / highland Chiapas)
Fortified Late Classic–Postclassic Maya capital (300–1200 CE, fortification 900–1200) crowning limestone hilltop 250 m above Comitán valley: 60+ structures, walled core (60 ha) with 4.5-m-thick…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Little Yucatan Temple I — Yucatan (55-03) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Chalcolithic (regional) temple complex of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for temple and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Postclassic (Chichimec / Aztec) · Chichimec / Aztec (Nahua)
Aztec twin-stair Coatepetl pyramid at Tenayuca — 38×22 m 19 m high with 40 serpent-head balustrades, 6 rebuild nests c.1220–1350 CE precursor to Templo Mayor.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Royal Yucatan Terrace North — Yucatan (55-42) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Iron Age (regional) temple complex of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 800 BCE for terrace and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic to Terminal Classic 600–1000 CE (apogee 800–950, Puuc apogee 850–925) · Maya (Puuc tradition, Northern Maya lowlands)
Greatest Puuc architectural city of northern Yucatán (600–950 CE) with veneer mosaic stonework, Puuc columns, Chac masks and lattice façades: Pyramid of the Magician (Adivino, 35 m high, oval…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Classic Xoo 650–900 CE · Zapotec (Xoo/Mahuitz phase)
Monte Albán northern barrio: 45 m ballcourt largest in Oaxaca and House of the Altars on 250 m plaza.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Late Classic to Postclassic Maya (9th–12th c. CE; Toltec-Maya fusion) · Maya (Itza) with Toltec influence
El Castillo (c.900–1100 CE) – 24m nine-step pyramid with 91 steps per stair plus top platform (365), dedicated to Kukulkan feathered serpent.
