Chichén Itzá
Mexico · North America
A big stone step pyramid in Mexico.
Chichén Itzá was a great Maya city in Mexico, built more than a thousand years ago. Its pyramid is called El Castillo.
Chichén Itzá was one of the greatest Maya cities, beside natural wells called cenotes in Mexico's Yucatán. Its step pyramid, El Castillo, watched over plazas and ball courts.
Three things to know
Chichén Itzá was a great Maya city, with monuments built between the 6th and 10th centuries.
Its famous step pyramid is called El Castillo, the Temple of Kukulkan.
The city grew beside cenotes — natural wells in the rock that gave the city its name.
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