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149 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇲🇽 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.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic Puuc 600–900 CE peak (with Middle Preclassic origins) · Maya (Puuc)
Major Puuc city in protected 1,800 ha reserve: Palace 38 m long with Puuc mosaic colonnade, Yaxché Group 60 m-tall conical karst hill with EAC twin concentrations, and chultunes.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
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.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Middle to Late Preclassic · Maya (Preclassic)
Late Preclassic Maya super-complex: La Danta triadic pyramid atop 18 m basal platform, volume exceeds Great Pyramid of Giza. Center of Mirador Basin city covering >2000 km² with causeways.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya · Maya (Mutal polity)
Tallest temple-pyramid in Tikal, atop 7 m supporting platform, roof comb; from summit see canopy and other temples. Part of vast Classic Maya city (16 km²) with ~3000 structures.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Maya Classic–Postclassic 300 BCE–1500 CE · Maya (Puuc–Chenés)
Red hill palaces 44 m portico, hematite, Puuc-Toltec 600–1000 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Maya Late Classic 700–1000 CE · Maya (Puuc)
Labná Arch 3 m, 67-room Palace, Puuc 800–1000 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Terminal Classic to Early Postclassic (Maya-Toltec) · Maya (Itzá) / Toltec-influenced
Stepped pyramid-temple at Chichén Itzá with 365 steps representing solar year; equinox feathered-serpent shadow (Kukulkán) descends balustrade.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Preclassic – Postclassic (c.300 BCE–1519 CE) continuous; Early Classic–Late Classic peak · Maya (East Coast / Southern Lowland)
Muyil (Chunyaxché, Chan Muuch) is the long-lived lowland Maya city on the karst ridge at the Muyil lagoon inside the Sian Ka'an Biosphere, Quintana Roo (10 m).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic (c.400–900 CE) Usumacinta kingdom · Maya (Usumacinta – Pacal's rival)
Yaxchilan (ancient Pa' Chan, cleft sky) crowns a horseshoe meander of the Usumacinta in Chiapas at 120 m, 35 km by river from Frontera Corozal.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Late Postclassic – Contact (c.1200–1530 CE) Kowoj Maya · Maya (Kowoj – Late Postclassic Petén)
Topoxte crowns the largest island (450m) in Lake Yaxha, Petén, at 180 m. After surrounding Classic cities fell, Postclassic Kowoj Maya refortified the island c.1200 CE with a rubble rampart (400m)…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Late Preclassic – Postclassic (c.300 BCE–1518 CE) Cozumel Maya – Spanish contact · Maya (Coastal East Coast)
El Cedral is Cozumel island's oldest pueblo (Preclassic village Oycib) 17 km south of San Miguel, Quintana Roo, at 10 m.
🇲🇽 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.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Postclassic to Contact (900–1697 CE, capital 1350–1697) · Maya Itzá (Yukatekan-Itza’)
Last independent Maya kingdom (Nojpetén) of the Itzá, final surrender to Spanish 1697 after 195 years resisting conquest: peninsula-town on Lake Petén Itzá's northern arm 300 m out, with causewayed…
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
Preclassic 1200 BCE–900 CE (peak Late Classic 562–680, Star-War defeat of Tikal) · Maya (Classic lowland; ally of Calakmul vs Tikal; later independent kingdom Uxwitzá)
Largest Maya city in Belize and greater Tikal rival: 200 km² settlement (70 sq mi mapped), Caana (“Sky Palace”) pyramid 43 m high – tallest man-made structure in Belize – with corner palaces, 160+…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Preclassic to Late Classic · Maya (Northern Lowlands)
Yucatán megacity (300 BCE–1200 CE) beneath Yellow City — 6 Preclassic megapyramids incl. 35-m Kinich Kakmó.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic 226 BCE–800 CE (apogee 615–800 CE Early–Late Classic) · Maya (B'aakal / Palenque dynasty; Western Maya lowlands)
Maya Classic capital of B'aakal on Chiapas foothills with low jungle: Temple of Inscriptions (22 m pyramid with 69-step Hieroglyphic Stair recording dynastic history and Pakal's vault; Pakal the…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
500 BCE–1542 CE (Preclassic through Postclassic to Contact; apogee CIassical 600–950) · Maya (northwestern Yucatán, Dzibilchaltún polity)
Northern Maya lowland megasite spanning 17 km² (largest in Yucatán by area, 8,400 structures, 1,300 vaulted buildings) occupied extraordinarily from Middle Preclassic 500 BCE to Conquest ~1542 CE…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Early Classic–Postclassic (Mam–K'iche') · Maya (Mam) with K'iche' overlay
Fortified hilltop white-plastered city on Selegua River terrace near Huehuetenango (400–1525 CE), with 43 structures: Pyramid Pyramid 7 ballcourt-pyramid 12 m, palace, and 1,000-m...
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early Preclassic–Postclassic Puuc (300 BCE–1500 CE, zenith 475–750) · Maya (Early Puuc – northwestern border)
Strategic Puuc border capital (300 BCE–1500 CE, florescent 475–750 Classic Early Puuc) northwest tip of Puuc, controlling Mérida–Uxmal–Calakmul corridor: 3 major groups (Ah Canul, May, Dzib) over 50…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic (Río Bec) · Maya (Río Bec)
Classic Río Bec city (c.500–800 CE) anchoring Xpujil town with famous Structure I — 53-m-long three-tower pyramid with three summit temples and false non-functional stair theatrics...
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya, c.550-850 CE (Río Bec, Late Classic) · Maya (Río Bec)
Río Bec Group V Structure V-N central pyramid: 20×15 m base, 18 m high with false twin towers, steep stair (55°) to ornamented temple with Chaak masks and medial moulding.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Preclassic to Late Classic (800 BCE–950 CE) · Maya — Pasión trading port
Strategic junction town where Salinas + Pasión = Usumacinta, defining southern Maya lowlands trading hub, excavated by Harvard 1958–63 after Morley identification, revealing 12 stelae dated 455–849…
🇲🇽 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).
