Yucatán, Mexico · Tradition
Pre-Columbian sacred sites in Yucatán, Mexico
Explore 8 Pre-Columbian sacred places in Yucatán, Mexico, with mapped locations and detailed site guides.
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Archaeological Site of Mayapan
Tecoh, Yucatán, Mexico
Mayapan was the political and spiritual heart of the Maya world in the centuries before Spanish contact....
Chichen Itza
Pisté, Yucatán, Mexico
Chichen Itza rises from the Yucatan jungle as one of the most powerful sacred sites in the Americas....
Kabah Archaeological Zone
Santa Elena, Yucatán, Mexico
In the Puuc hills of western Yucatan, where no cenotes break the limestone and rain alone sustains life, the Maya built Kabah and covered its greatest palace with the...
Labna
Santa Elena, Yucatán, Mexico
Rising from the limestone hills of the Puuc region, Labna preserves the most elaborate ceremonial arch in all Maya territory....
Monastery of San Antonio de Padua, Izamal
Izamal, Yucatán, Mexico
In the heart of Yucatán's Yellow City, Franciscan friars built one of Mexico's largest church atriums directly atop a leveled Maya temple platform, using its own carved...
Museum of the Mayan Village at Dzibilchaltun
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Dzibilchaltun—'the place where there is writing on the stones'—was inhabited from 1500 BCE until the Spanish Conquest, one of the longest continuously occupied sites in...
Sayil Archaeological Zone
Santa Elena, Yucatán, Mexico
Sayil—Place of the Leafcutter Ants—was once home to 10,000 people in a region with no surface water....
Uxmal
Santa Elena, Yucatán, Mexico
Uxmal rises from the dry Puuc hills of Yucatan as a prayer made visible in stone. Unlike other Maya cities built near cenotes or rivers, Uxmal had no natural water source....
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