Zona Arqueologica de Cholula

The Great Pyramid of Cholula, additionally referred to as Tlachihualtepetl, is a big complicated located in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. It is the maximum vital archaeological website of a pyramid in the New World, in addition to the maximum crucial pyramid appeared to exist inside the global nowadays. The pyramid stands fifty five metres above the encompassing simple, and in its final form it measured 450 via 450 metres. The pyramid is a temple that historically has been considered as having been committed to the god Quetzalcoatl.

The architectural fashion of the building changed into related intently to that of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico, despite the fact that have an effect on from the Gulf Coast is also obvious, particularly from El Tajin. The Great Pyramid end up an vital spiritual and mythical centre in prehispanic times. Over a length of 1000 years preceding to the Spanish Conquest, consecutive manufacturing stages step by step built up the bulk of the pyramid until it became the largest in Mexico by means of quantity.