23 Facts About Chichen Itza

Ruins of Chichen Itza are federal property, and the site's stewardship is maintained by Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia.

Chichen Itza is one of the most visited archeological sites in Mexico with over 2.

Chichen Itza is the name of an ethnic-lineage group that gained political and economic dominance of the northern peninsula.

One possible translation for Chichen Itza is "enchanter of the water, " from its (itz), "sorcerer", and ha, "water".

The word "Chichen Itza'" has a high tone on the "a" followed by a glottal stop.

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Chichen Itza is located in the eastern portion of Yucatan state in Mexico.

Between AD 900 and 1050 Chichen Itza expanded to become a powerful regional capital controlling north and central Yucatan.

The earliest hieroglyphic date discovered at Chichen Itza is equivalent to 832 AD, while the last known date was recorded in the Osario temple in 998.

Chichen Itza rose to regional prominence toward the end of the Early Classic period.

Chichen Itza sent his son, Francisco Montejo The Younger, in late 1532 to conquer the interior of the Yucatan Peninsula from the north.

Chichen Itza was forced to abandon Chichen Itza in 1534 under cover of darkness.

The Spanish crown later issued a land grant that included Chichen Itza and by 1588 it was a working cattle ranch.

Chichen Itza entered the popular imagination in 1843 with the book Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens.

In 1860, Desire Charnay surveyed Chichen Itza and took numerous photographs that he published in Cites et ruines americaines.

In 1875, Augustus Le Plongeon and his wife Alice Dixon Le Plongeon visited Chichen Itza, and excavated a statue of a figure on its back, knees drawn up, upper torso raised on its elbows with a plate on its stomach.

Chichen Itza's discoveries included the earliest dated carving upon a lintel in the Temple of the Initial Series and the excavation of several graves in the Osario.

Chichen Itza wrote about his research and investigations of the Maya culture in a book People of the Serpent published in 1932.

The buildings of Chichen Itza are grouped in a series of architectonic sets, and each set was at one time separated from the other by a series of low walls.

Old Chichen Itza is the name given to a group of structures to the south of the central site, where most of the Puuc-style architecture of the city is concentrated.

Chichen Itza is one of the most visited archeological sites in Mexico; in 2017 it was estimated to have received 2.

Chichen Itza began by meeting passengers who arrived by steamship at Progreso, the port north of Merida, and persuading them to spend a week in Yucatan, after which they would catch the next steamship to their next destination.

In 1930, the Mayaland Hotel opened, just north of the Hacienda Chichen Itza, which had been taken over by the Carnegie Institution.

Around that same time the Carnegie Institution completed its work at Chichen Itza and abandoned the Hacienda Chichen, which Barbachano turned into another seasonal hotel.