Verified places tagged “temple complex” in Mexico

🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex

Balamku

Late Classic (Rio Bec–Chenes) · Maya (Rio Bec)

Balamku — 16 m jaguar stucco frieze in Calakmul forest.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex

Tabasqueño

Late Classic Maya 600–900 CE, Chenes style · Maya (Chenes)

Intact Chenes palace at Tabasqueño with renowned zoomorphic portal: doorway transformed into gaping earth-monster mask with stacked Chaac masks and ear assemblages (INAH).

🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex

Manos Rojas

Late Classic Rio Bec 550–830 CE · Maya (Rio Bec)

Rio Bec Group R-16 forest palace east of Becán-Xpujil road: twin non-functional stair towers flanking tripartite temple, interior vaults bear ochre red handprints giving modern name.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex

Peor Es Nada

Late Classic Rio Bec 600–850 CE · Maya (Rio Bec)

Eponymously named ‘Peor Es Nada’ (Worse Is Nothing) by chicleros, located 12 km SE of Xpujil deep in forest.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex

Channal

Late Classic Rio Bec 550–800 CE · Maya (Rio Bec)

Mid-size Rio Bec forest palace 7 km S of Okolhuitz on Becán–Hormiguero track. Structure II combines Chenes monster mask lower register with Rio Bec twin towers upper, indicating stylistic hybridity.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex

Xpujil Group B

Late Classic Rio Bec 600–900 CE · Maya (Rio Bec)

Group B 500 m south of Xpujil’s iconic Structure I (three-temple pyramid): twin-tower Structure II 9 m high with Rio Bec false stairs, courtyard and vaulted residential palace.