Chichen Itza in Mayan Boca-del-pozo known as chichen and de los brujos-de-agua known as Itza is one of the main archaeological sites of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. It is located in the municipality of Tinum, in the state of Yucatan. It consisted of a city or a ceremonial centre, which passed through different constructive epochs and influences of the different peoples that occupied it and that promoted it since its foundation. An important and renowned vestige of the Mayan civilization, the main buildings that remain there correspond to the period called Late Classic or Early Postclassic 800-1100 AD
The multiple and monumental buildings of the Chichen Itza esplanade are presided by the Pyramid of Kukulcan, called by many "El Castillo", one of the paradigmatic buildings of Mayan architecture. It is a four-sided pyramid that culminates in a rectangular temple. It sits on a rectangular platform 55.5 meters wide and has a height of 24 meters. Each side of the pyramid has a large stairway, 91 steps per side and 1 more that leads to the upper temple, giving 365 steps, one per day of the year. Izamal was one of the important sites of the Mayan civilisation. A large settlement in the northern plains of the Yucatan Peninsula. The size of its buildings and the network of sacbes roads white road built in Mayan antiquity are evidence of the religious, political and economic power that this city had over the vast territory of the Mayan.