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A panorama of the Mayapan excavations from the top of the Castle of King Kukulcan. The ethnohistorical sources – such as Diego de Landa's Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan, compiled from native sources in the 16th century – recount that the site was founded by Kukulcan (the Mayan name of Quetzalcoatl, the Toltec king, culture hero, and demigod) after the fall of Chichen Itza.
Mayapan and East Coast styles San Gervasio is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization , located in the northern third of the island of Cozumel off the northeastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula , in what is now the Mexican state of Quintana Roo .
In 1955, Karl Ruppert and A. Ledyard Smith lead a research expedition of sites within a 20-km radius of the ruins of Mayapan in order to compare the house types of those sites with those of Mayapan and to find the extent of the Mayapan type. [4] Kabah was one of a few other sites surveyed in order to obtain data on their house types.
Mayapan: Yucatán, Mexico: Mayapan was an important fortified city with a densely occupied area within the city walls. The principal pyramid at Mayapan was modelled after the main pyramid at Chichen Itza. The city was the most important site in Yucatán for a period of about 250 years during the Postclassic Period, with the earliest structures ...
Mayapan was an important Postclassic city in the northern Yucatán Peninsula. Mayapan was abandoned around 1448, after a period of political, social and environmental turbulence that in many ways echoed the Classic period collapse in the southern Maya region.
Mayapan is commonly held to have been ruled by a multepal or council of lords, composed of members from the Canul, Chel, Cocom, Cupul, and Xiu ch'ibalo'ob or noble houses. [ 91 ] [ 90 ] [ 92 ] [ 93 ] [ note 54 ] Its realm is believed to have been organised as a confederation of provinces, called the League of Mayapan, each of which was overseen ...
[3] [6] The researchers plan further fieldwork, [6] describing the ruins as "hidden in plain sight" only a 15-minute walk from Federal Highway 186 near Xpujil and cultivated farmland. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The researchers named the site "Valeriana", after a nearby lake named Laguna la Valeriana.
C. Cahal Pech; Calakmul; Cancuén; Cara Sucia (Mesoamerican site) Caracol; Casa Blanca, El Salvador; Balankanche; Maya cave sites; Central Acropolis; Cerro Quiac