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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.
Lubaantun includes many small step pyramids in addition to its far larger one. Nim Li Punit. Belize Building Maya: 12 400 to 800 CE Nim Li Punit has several small-step pyramids, but none that possessed the sheer mass of other examples. Xunantunich. Belize El Castillo Maya: 40 600 to 900 CE San Andrés. El Salvador the Bell of San Andrés Maya ...
El Castillo, Chichen Itza. Mesoamerican pyramids form a prominent part of ancient Mesoamerican architecture.Although similar in some ways to Egyptian pyramids, these New World structures have flat tops (many with temples on the top) and stairs ascending their faces, more similar to ancient Mesopotamian Ziggurats.
The temple was identified by the first Spaniards to see it, as El Castillo ("the castle"), and it regularly is referred to as such. [44] This step pyramid stands about 30 meters (98 ft) high and consists of a series of nine square terraces, each approximately 2.57 meters (8.4 ft) high, with a 6-meter (20 ft) high temple upon the summit.
It was active from the mid-16th to the 19th centuries and stretched over 2,600 km (1,600 mi) from north of Mexico City to Santa Fe in today's New Mexico. This serial site comprises the Mexican part of the route, in the length of 1,400 km (870 mi), with an ensemble of 59 properties, such as mines, towns, former convents, bridges, and former ...
At Chichén Itzá there is a pyramid called El Castillo ('the castle'). With four stairways, each with 91 steps (with the upper platform they sum up to 365), and having other architectural elements appearing in astronomically significant numbers, it is a good example of Maya myth and astronomical cycles joined in architecture.
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El Castillo (The Castle) also known as Structure 1, is the main structure of El Meco, it is a five-level pyramid with a height of 12.5 meters and a temple at the top, it is also the largest Maya building in the region of the Eastern Coast of Quintana Roo by height. El Castillo temple is built facing the sea coast, being the only Maya temple ...