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Tagskaan
5 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Preclassic – Classic (c.400 BCE–800 CE) Kaan dynasty predecessor · Maya (Lowland – Kaan/Snake Kingdom capital precursor)
Ichkabal is a vaulted jungle metropolis on the pitted limestone plateau 40 km northwest of Bacalar, Quintana Roo, at 110 m.
🇲🇽 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 Classic Maya (550–800 CE peak Calakmul Snake Kingdom, Kaan polity) · Maya (Classic, Calakmul/Kaan dynasty, Snake Head emblem)
Northern pyramid at Calakmul Snake Kingdom capital (500 BCE–900 CE): Structure I 40 m high (second highest at site after Structure II 55 m) at north edge of Great Plaza, 70×50 m base with stairway…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya, c.550-850 CE (Classic, Kaan dynasty) · Maya (Kaan / Snake Kingdom)
Calakmul Structure I (East Acropolis) inside Calakmul Biosphere: 45 m high pyramid (base 120×80 m) with acropolis palace summit, among largest Mundo Maya (comparable to Tikal Temple IV).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early–Late Classic · Maya (Kaan–Chenés frontier)
First Kaan (Snake) capital (300–900 CE) — 28-m Kinichná Acropolis with wooden lintel inscriptions.