Teotihuacan Archaeological Zone
Vast pre-Hispanic city north-east of Mexico City, with the Avenue of the Dead and two great pyramids.
Teotihuacan was the largest city of the pre-Columbian Americas and the political, economic and religious centre of a network that reached as far as the Maya lowlands. At its height, between about AD 350 and 450, roughly 100,000 people lived within a rigid grid of avenues and walled apartment compounds. The identity of its builders remains uncertain; the Nahuatl name, meaning the place where the gods were created, was given centuries later by the Mexica, who treated the abandoned ruins as a sacred site.
The open archaeological zone covers some 264 hectares and is arranged along the Avenue of the Dead, a two-kilometre ceremonial axis running between the Pyramid of the Moon and the Ciudadela. Visitors can walk the avenue, enter the Temple of the Feathered Serpent and see painted murals preserved in residential palaces such as Tepantitla and Tetitla. Two site museums display sculpture, ceramics and offerings. UNESCO inscribed Teotihuacan on the World Heritage List in 1987.
Highlights
- The Pyramid of the Sun, one of the largest pyramids in the Americas
- The two-kilometre Avenue of the Dead linking the main ceremonial platforms
- Temple of the Feathered Serpent, with carved serpent and Tlaloc heads
- Mural paintings at Tepantitla, Tetitla and the Palace of the Jaguars
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