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The Maya name "Chichen Itza" means "At the mouth of the well of the Itza." This derives from chi', meaning "mouth" or "edge", and chʼen or chʼeʼen, meaning "well". Itzá is the name of an ethnic-lineage group that gained political and economic dominance of the northern peninsula.
Machu Picchu[ a ] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [ 9 ] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [ 10 ] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province [ 11 ] above the ...
Sacsayhuamán (/ ˈsæksaɪˌwʌmən / SACK-sy-wuh-mən; Spanish pronunciation: [saksajwaˈman]) or Saksaywaman (from Quechua Saksay waman pukara, pronounced [ˈsaksaj ˈwaman], lit.'fortress of the royal falcon or hawk ') [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] is a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the historic capital of the Inca Empire.
The Inca Empire, [ a ] officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, lit. "land of four parts" [ 5 ]), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. [ 6 ] The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco. The Inca civilization rose from the Peruvian highlands sometime in the ...
El Castillo (Spanish pronunciation: [el kas'tiʎo], Spanish for "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.
Tulum International Airport. Tulum (Spanish pronunciation: [tuˈlun], Yucatec Maya: Tulu'um) is the site of a pre-Columbian Mayan walled city which served as a major port for Coba, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. [ 1 ] The ruins are situated on 12-meter-tall (39 ft) cliffs along the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula on the Caribbean ...
Coricancha, Convent of Santo Domingo, and courtyard (Intipampa) A digital reconstruction of its base during the Inca period. One of the original rooms from the Inca period. A digital reconstruction of the room when it was filled with gold, according to the description of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. Ceiling ornament.
Tikal (/ tiˈkɑːl /; Tik'al in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, [2] found in a rainforest in Guatemala. [3] It is one of the largest archeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archeological region of the Petén ...