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27 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Classic Maya, Late Classic apogee · Maya — Toniná polity
Hill-top military superpower in western Maya lowlands, famous for last dated Maya inscription (909 CE) and tallest pyramid platform in Mesoamerica by continuous mass — the Acropolis is a hill…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Postclassic (c.1200-1521 CE) · Mesoamerican Postclassic (Tepanec-Aztec)
Azcapotzalco (Tepanec capital) — buried postclassic tell/village at Mexico City.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Geoglyph
Late Archaic to Trincheras (Amargosa–Hohokam interface) · Trincheras / Hohokam desert–Tohono O'odham continuity
17 Gran Desierto hill intaglios (300 BCE–1400 CE) on Pinacate cerro islands — Tohono O'odham salt pilgrimage.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya (600–900 CE) · Maya (Usumacinta)
Spectacular Classic Maya riverine city-state on Usumacinta south bank (350–800 CE), rival of Piedras Negras, known for lintel carvings of bloodletting.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic, Chenes (600–950 CE) · Maya — Chenes
Largest Chenes region city atop meseta between Puuc and Rio Bec, 60 km north-east of Hopelchén, famed for Palace of the Chac adorned with stacked Chenes masks and serpent mouth doorway leading to…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Rio Bec (600–900 CE) · Maya — Rio Bec
One of 12 Río Bec Project microregion hamlets illustrating non-hierarchical polity model — no dominant pyramid but a low broad temple mound (Structure 1) with Chenes mosaic fragments, surrounded by…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
El Rey is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Mayan culture, located in the southeast of Mexico, in the tourist resort of Cancun, in the state of Quintana Roo.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Chapultepec Castle (Spanish: Castillo de Chapultepec) is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Geoglyph
Medio period (Casas Grandes, 1060–1340 CE) · Mogollon–Paquimé (Casas Grandes)
60+ adobe and rubble geoglyphs (1060–1340 CE) surrounding the Mogollon city of Paquimé — acolyte owl and avenues.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Mogollon culture
Cuarenta Casas (translation: "40 houses") is an archaeological site in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Construction of the site is attributed to the Mogollon culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Early to Late Classic (300–800 CE) · Maya — Rio Becmicroregion / Petén–Rio Bec transitional
Concentrated Petén-style site discovered as anomaly within dispersed Rio Bec zone 3 km north-east of Rio Bec Group B (18°22.510 N, 89°21.524 W per project coordinates), with 63 structures, 18 stelae…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Preclassic to Late Classic (100 BCE–900 CE) · Maya (Kaan polity satellite)
Hugely sprawling 4 km² Late Classic centre (250–900 CE) between Tikal and Calakmul, dominated by Pyramid M1 (30x25 m, 14 m high with roof comb) and K2 double pyramid acropolis (two 12 m pyramids on…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic (550–850 CE) · Maya — Chenes/Rio Bec transitional
Transitional site noted by Nondédéo between Chenes Santa Rosa Xtampak sphere and Rio Bec core, its main structure shows Chenes stone mosaic masks on north façade and Rio Bec plain tower fragments on…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Rock art
Boca de Potrerillos is an archeological site located some 14 km from the municipal head of Mina, Nuevo León, Mexico.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Aguada Fénix is a large Preclassic Maya archaeological site located in the state of Tabasco, Mexico, near the border with Guatemala.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Chactún (Maya: Red stone) is the name of an archaeological site of the Mesoamerican Maya civilization in the state of Campeche, Mexico, in the northern part of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Preclassic to Early Postclassic (300 BCE–1200 CE) · Maya — Oxkintok sphere, Puuc
Northwestern-most major Puuc site near Maxcanú, 6 km southeast of town, conspicuous for Satunsat labyrinth — vaulted maze with 3 floors and astronomical ducts linking to equinox sun, and triadic…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Jaina Island is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site and artificial island in the present-day Mexican state of Campeche.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Hydraulic works
shortest distance between the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Ake (or Aké in Spanish orthography) is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
La Ferrería is an archaeological site located 7 kilometers south of the city of Durango, in the Mexican state of Durango, at the “Cerro de La Ferrería”, on the side of the Tunal River.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Olmecas
Juxtlahuaca (Spanish pronunciation: [xuʃtlaˈwaka]), or Xiuxtlahuaca (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ʃjuʃtɬaˈwaka]), is a cave and archaeological site in the Mexican state of Guerrero containing murals…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Frightful Cave (Spanish: Cueva Espantosa) is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico.
