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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 .
The ruins lie in the south of Mexico's Quintana Roo state, [7] a short distance inland from the Bacalar Lagoon. [8] The ruins of the city are situated on a raised area surrounded by an extensive area of seasonal swampland, known as a bajo , featuring particularly fertile soils.
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 ...
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.
The Late Postclassic site at Mayapan incorporated several cenotes into ceremonial groups, and the Cenote Ch’en Mul is at the heart of the site. [11] At Dos Pilas , house platforms were often in front of cave entries and tunnels went beneath the platform.
Archway of the Temple of the 7 Doll Ruins of the colonial open chapel Cenote at Dzibilchaltun. Dzibilchaltún (Yucatec: Ts'íibil Cháaltun, [d̥z̥ʼiː˧˥biɭ tɕʰɒːl˦˥tuŋ]) is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán, approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of state capital of Mérida. The original name for the site ...
"El Palacio" of Aké Ruins of Aké. Ake (or Aké in Spanish orthography) is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the municipality of Tixkokob, [1] in the Mexican state of Yucatán; 40 km (25 mi) east of Mérida, Yucatán. [2] The name Ake is a toponym that means "place of reeds" in Yucatec Maya.