Calakmul

Calakmul is one of the cities largest and most impressive of the mayan area. The site encompasses approximately 70 km2 and has more than 6,000 structures and was, together with Tikal, and Palenque, one of the great regional powers, during the classic period maya.

Calakmul means ‘City of the two Adjacent Pyramids’, the name was made by biologist Cyrus Longworth Lundell, however, the ancestral name of the site was Ox You Tuun (three stones or three steles). Everything seems to indicate that – in its heyday – Calakmul was the seat of the most powerful confederation of cities state mayan known, called The Kaan Kingdom.

It is up to the date, the place with the greatest number of stelae of the whole of the maya area, and it is precisely thanks to its inscriptions, that we know much of the history of the period
classic.
In the image we see the structure I and II, which is part of its central Acropolis. ©️Wikicommons