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Pre-Columbian sacred sites in Mexico
Explore Pre-Columbian sacred sites in Mexico: pilgrimage places, living traditions, heritage landmarks, and sacred landscapes.
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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....
Chichen Itza
Pisté, Yucatán, Mexico
Chichen Itza rises from the Yucatan jungle as one of the most powerful sacred sites in the Americas....
Teotihuacan
Teotihuacán, State of Mexico, Mexico
We do not know who built Teotihuacan. This is the first mystery that greets visitors to what was once one of the largest cities in the ancient world....
Coba
Cobá, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Coba was once one of the largest Maya cities, its white roads stretching over one hundred kilometers to connect the ancient world....
Mt. Citlatepetl Orizaba
Tlachichuca, Puebla, Mexico
Citlaltepetl—Star Mountain in Nahuatl—rises 5,636 meters above sea level, the highest peak in Mexico and third highest in North America....
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....
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....
Mt. Iztaccihuatl
Tlalmanalco, State of Mexico, Mexico
Iztaccihuatl rises 5,230 meters above the Valley of Mexico, her four peaks forming the shape of a woman lying in eternal sleep—head, chest, knees, and feet draped in snow....
Yaxchilan Archaeological Zone
Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico
The Usumacinta River still guards Yaxchilan as it has for fifteen centuries. Reachable only by boat, this jungle-shrouded city preserves the most extraordinary Maya...
Palenque
Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico
The jungle encloses Palenque like a living wall, howler monkeys calling from the canopy as mist rises through ancient temples....
Mitla Archaeological Zone
San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico
Mitla—from the Nahuatl Mictlan, 'place of the dead'—served as the gateway between worlds for Zapotec civilization....
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...
Mt. Popocatepetl
Atlautla, State of Mexico, Mexico
Popocatepetl—Smoking Mountain—is Mexico's second highest peak and one of its most active volcanoes, continuously erupting since 2005....
Edzna Archaeological Zone
Municipio de Campeche, Campeche, Mexico
For nearly two millennia, from 400 BCE until the Spanish arrived, Edzna commanded the Campeche lowlands....
Tulum
Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Tulum rises above turquoise waters at the edge of the Maya world, a walled city that once welcomed both trading canoes and the first light of morning....
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...
Izamal
Izamal, Yucatán, Mexico
Izamal (Spanish: [isaˈmal] ) is a small city in the Mexican state of Yucatán, 72 kilometres (45 mi) east of state capital Mérida, in southern Mexico....
Monte Alban Archaeological Zone
Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca, Mexico
Monte Alban rises 400 meters above the Valley of Oaxaca—a mountaintop that the Zapotec literally carved into a capital city beginning around 500 BCE....
Archaeological Zone Tepozteco
Tepoztlan, Morelos, Mexico
Six hundred meters above the valley floor, on a cliff edge overlooking the town of Tepoztlan, stands a temple dedicated to Tepoztecatl, the Aztec god of pulque, fertility,...
Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacán
San Juan Teotihuacan, State of Mexico, Mexico
The Pyramid of the Moon stands at the northern terminus of the Avenue of the Dead, the visual and ritual culmination of Teotihuacan's processional way....
Archaeological Site of Mayapan
Tecoh, Yucatan, Mexico
Mayapan was the political and spiritual heart of the Maya world in the centuries before Spanish contact....
Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacán
San Juan Teotihuacan, State of Mexico, Mexico
The Pyramid of the Sun rises like a man-made mountain from the ancient city of Teotihuacan....
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