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Pre-Columbian archaeological site sacred sites
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Maya Site of Copan
Copán Ruinas, Copán, Honduras
Copan stands where rulers enacted creation. For 400 years, Maya kings carved themselves as deities in elaborate stelae, believing the stone would hold their divine essence...
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....
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...
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....
Tambomachay Archaeological Complex
Cuzco, Cusco, Peru
At 3,700 meters above Cusco, water emerges from underground springs and flows through channels carved five centuries ago by Inca engineers....
Abaj Takalik
El Asintal, Retalhuleu, Guatemala
Tak'alik Ab'aj is a Preclassic city in Guatemala's Pacific piedmont, inscribed by UNESCO in 2023....
Marcahuamachuco Archaeological Complex
Huamachuco, La Libertad, Peru
On an elongated mesa dominating three mountain valleys in northern Peru, Marcahuamachuco sprawls across 260 hectares—a vast sanctuary built between 400 and 1,200 CE,...
Pisac Incan Archaeological Complex
Pisac, Cusco, Peru
Pisac sprawls across a mountain ridge at the entrance to the Sacred Valley, its terraces forming an inverted triangle that descends toward the Urubamba River....
Edzna Archaeological Zone
Municipio de Campeche, Campeche, Mexico
For nearly two millennia, from 400 BCE until the Spanish arrived, Edzna commanded the Campeche lowlands....
Ruins of Montegrande
Jaén, Cajamarca, Peru
Rising from the rice paddies outside Jaén, a mound as tall as a five-story building conceals one of Peru's most ancient mysteries: a spiral temple built around 3000 BCE by...
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...
Choquequirao Archaeological Park, Peru
Santa Teresa, Cusco, Peru
While Machu Picchu receives 2,500 visitors daily, Choquequirao sees only about twelve....
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....
Machuqolqa
Chinchero, Cusco, Peru
Machuqolqa — 'old storehouse' in Quechua — sits at 3,850 metres above the left bank of the Urubamba River, a few minutes from Chinchero....
Chullpa Lagarto
Sillustani, Puno, Peru
The Chullpa del Lagarto rises above the other funerary towers at Sillustani with the authority its builders intended....
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,...
Complejo Arqueológico Q'enqo
Cusco, Cusco, Peru
Q'enqo ('labyrinth') is an Inca ceremonial complex 4 km from Cusco at 3,580m, with an Intihuatana, underground galleries, and zigzag channels.
Archaeological Site of Mayapan
Tecoh, Yucatan, Mexico
Mayapan was the political and spiritual heart of the Maya world in the centuries before Spanish contact....
El Ushnu
Vilcashuaman, Ayacucho, Peru
At the heart of Vilcashuamán — what the Inca regarded as the geographic centre of their empire — a five-tiered stone platform rises above a trapezoidal plaza....
Tiwanaku Archaeological Site
Tiwanaku, La Paz, Bolivia
Tiwanaku rises from the Altiplano at nearly 4,000 meters, the spiritual and political capital of a pre-Inca civilization that unified architecture, astronomy, and worship...
Centro Arqueológico de Chinchero
Chinchero, Cusco, Peru
Chinchero is not a ruin. An Inca royal estate, a colonial church with syncretic murals, terraces still walked daily, and a Quechua community whose women have woven on...
Zona Arqueologica Moray
Maras, Cusco, Peru
Three groups of concentric circular terraces sink into the high plateau northwest of Cusco, each one descending through a temperature gradient of up to 15 degrees Celsius...
Puma Punku
Tiwanaku, La Paz, Bolivia
Puma Punku is the unfinished masterwork of the Tiwanaku civilization, a 6th-century platform mound in the Bolivian altiplano whose stonework defies easy explanation....
Chullpas Sillustani
Sillustani, Puno, Peru
On a peninsula jutting into Lake Umayo near Puno, ninety-one stone towers stand in various states of preservation — from intact cylinders to tumbled foundations....
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