Chichén-Itzá

Chichén-Itzá is a locality in Mexico. It lies in the municipality of Tinum in the state of Yucatán, in the eastern part of the country, 1 100 km east of the capital, Mexico City. It sits 27 meters above sea level and has 18 000 inhabitants.

The terrain around Chichén-Itzá is very flat. The surroundings are fairly sparsely populated, with 29 inhabitants per square kilometre, and Chichén-Itzá is the largest community in the area. The land around it is covered mainly by deciduous broadleaf forest.

Nothing further is recorded here about the monuments of Chichén-Itzá: no description of any structure, no excavation history and no account of what survives. The atlas lists it as an unclassified site and dates it, on stylistic grounds, to between 600 and 1200 CE. That range comes from style and should be read as a general placement and not as the date of a single building.

For context, civilisations in Mesoamerica raised carved stone monuments. Maya stelae are tall sculpted stone shafts, often paired with low circular stones called altars, though their actual function is uncertain. Many are carved in low relief, though plain ones are found throughout the Maya region. The sculpting of such monuments spread across the Maya area in the Classic Period, about 250 to 900 CE, and a sculpted stela paired with an altar is a hallmark of Classic Maya civilisation. These are general facts about the region and are not statements about Chichén-Itzá itself.

Chichén-Itzá is a other / unclassified in Tinum Municipality, Mexico. Wikidata describes it as: human settlement in Mexico. Dating: 600 CE to 1200 CE. Elevation: 27 m. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Swedish article "Chichén-Itzá", shown in the original language.