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El Castillo (Spanish pronunciation: [el kas'tiʎo], 'the Castle'), also known as the Temple of Kukulcan is a Mesoamerican step-pyramid that dominates the center of the Chichen Itza archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán. The temple building is more formally designated by archaeologists as Chichen Itza Structure 5B18.
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This platform is located north of El Castillo, between it and the Cenote Sagrado. [56] The Temple of the Tables is the northernmost of a series of buildings to the east of El Castillo. Its name comes from a series of altars at the top of the structure that are supported by small carved figures of men with upraised arms, called "atlantes."
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El Castillo is the “axis mundi” of the site, or the intersection of the two cardinal lines. Evidence of construction suggests the temple was built in two stages (the earlier dubbed Structure A-6–2nd, which dates to around 800 AD, and the later Structure A-6–1st).
In his Vox Latina: A guide to the Pronunciation of Classical Latin, William Sidney Allen remarked that this pronunciation, used by the Catholic Church in Rome and elsewhere, and whose adoption Pope Pius X recommended in a 1912 letter to the Archbishop of Bourges, "is probably less far removed from classical Latin than any other 'national ...
El Castillo, a faux castle in Chancay, Peru; El Castillo, a route up the Chimborazo volcano, Ecuador; El Castillo Hotel, a historic building in Valle Hermoso, Argentina; Antiguo Cuartel Militar Español de Ponce, or El Castillo, a historic building in Ponce, Puerto Rico; Upuigma-tepui, or El Castillo, a table mountain in Bolívar state, Venezuela
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