Temple of Kukulcan

Local nameTemplo de Kukulkán
LocationTinum, Mexico

El Castillo, 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.

Built by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization sometime between the 8th and 12th centuries AD, the building served as a temple to the deity Kukulcán, the Yucatec Maya Feathered Serpent deity closely related to Quetzalcoatl, a deity known to the Aztecs and other central Mexican cultures of the Postclassic period. It has a substructure that likely was constructed several centuries earlier for the same purpose.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Castillo,_Chichen_Itza

Address San Felipe Nuevo, Mexico

Coordinates 20°40'58.763" N -88°34'7.109" E

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