用戶:Msnhinet8jp/中美洲金字塔列表
This is a list of Mesoamerican pyramids or ceremonial structures. In most cases they are not true pyramids. There are hundreds of these done in many different styles throughout Mexico and Central America. These were made by several pre-Columbian cultures including the Olmecs, Mayan, Toltecs, and Aztecs. In most cases they were made by city states that created many structure in the same style. The style for each city state is usually different. These are usually made out of stone and mortar but some of the earliest may have been made out of clay.
Site | Name of pyramid | Culture | Base length (m) | Height (m) | Inclination | Approximate time of construction | Function | Notes | Image |
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Altun Ha Belize | Maya | 16 | 200 to 900 CE | ||||||
Caracol Belize | Caana | Maya | 43 | A triadic pyramid, the highest man-made structure in Belize | |||||
Caracol Belize | Temple of the Wooden Lintel | Maya | |||||||
Lamanai Belize | The High Temple | Maya | 33 | Pre-Classic Period | |||||
Lamanai Belize | The Temple of the Jaguar | Maya | 20 | Pre-Classic Period | |||||
Lubaantun Belize | Maya | 730 to 890 CE | Lubaantun's structures are mostly built of large stone blocks laid with no mortar, primarily black slate rather than the limestone typical of the region. | ||||||
Lubaantun Belize | Maya | 730 to 890 CE | Lubaantun includes many small step pyramids as well as the larger one. | ||||||
Nim Li Punit Belize | Maya | tallest 12.2 | 400 to 800 CE | Nim Li Punit has several small step pyramids. | |||||
Xunantunich Belize | El Castillo | Maya | 40 | 600 to 900 CE | |||||
San Andrés, El Salvador | the Bell of San Andrés | Maya | 600 to 900 CE | This is a scale model of structure 5. There are several other smaller structures that may be similar to pyramids on the site. | |||||
Tazumal El Salvador | Maya | 250 to 900 CE | |||||||
Aguateca Guatemala | Maya | 6 | 760 to 830 CE | This temple pyramid was left unfinished when the city was abandoned. | |||||
Dos Pilas Guatemala | LD-49 | Maya | 20 | after 629 CE | This pyramid's main stairway (known as Hieroglyphic Stairway 2) contains at least eighteen hieroglyphic steps. | ||||
Dos Pilas Guatemala | El Duende | Maya | after 629 CE | This temple pyramid was built by enlarging and terracing a natural hill some way from the site core, giving the impression of a single massive structure. | |||||
Kaminaljuyu Guatemala | Maya | 250 CE | Kaminaljuyu contains some 200 platforms and pyramidal mounds at least half of which were made before 250 CE. Some of these were used to hold temples on top. | ||||||
El Mirador Guatemala | La Danta | Maya | 72 | 300 BCE to 100 CE | La Danta pyramid temple has an estimated volume of 2,800,000 cubic meters which makes it one of the largest pyramids in the world. | ||||
El Mirador Guatemala | El Tigre | Maya | 55 | 300 BCE to 100 CE | |||||
Mixco Viejo Guatemala | Maya | 1100 to 1500 CE | |||||||
Tikal Guatemala | Maya | 47 | |||||||
Copán Honduras | Maya | Copán has several overlapping step-pyramids. | |||||||
Bonampak Mexico | The Temple of the Murals | Maya | 580 to 800 CE | ||||||
Calakmul Mexico | The Great Pyramid | Maya | 55 | ||||||
Chichen Itza Mexico | El Castillo | Maya | 55.3 | 30 | |||||
Cholula Mexico | The Great Pyramid of Cholula | Xelhua | 450 sq. | 66 | 300 BCE - 800 CE | The largest pyramid and the largest manmade monument anywhere in the world. | |||
Coba Mexico | The Nohoch Mul pyramid | Maya | 42 | 500 to 900 CE | |||||
Coba Mexico | La Iglesia | Maya | 500 to 900 CE | ||||||
Coba Mexico | Crossroads Temple | Maya | 500 to 900 CE | ||||||
El Tajín Mexico | Pyramid of the Niches | Classic Veracruz | 18 | ||||||
La Venta Mexico | The Great Pyramid | Olmec | 33 | This is one of the earliest pyramids known in Mesoamerica. It was made out of an estimated 100,000 cubic meters of earth fill. | |||||
Palenque Mexico | Temple of the Cross | Maya | |||||||
Palenque Mexico | Temple of the Inscriptions | Maya | |||||||
Santa Cecilia Acatitlan Mexico | Aztec | In 1962, the architect and archaeologist Eduardo Pareyon Moreno reconstructed and reinforced the pyramid's basement and rebuilt the temple that crowns it. | |||||||
Tenayuca Mexico | Aztec | 62 by 50 | This is the earliest example yet found of the typical Aztec double pyramid, which consists of joined pyramidal bases supporting two temples. | ||||||
Tenochtitlan Mexico | Templo Mayor | Aztec | 100 by 80 | 1390 to 1500 CE | Tenochtitlan was destroyed by the Spanish. Recreations of this and other pyramids are based on historical text and archaeological ruins. | ||||
Tenochtitlan Mexico | Aztec | 1325 to 1521 CE | Tenochtitlan was destroyed by the Spanish. Recreations the city are based on historical text and archaeological ruins. This site once included at least half a dozen pyramids. | ||||||
Teotihuacan Mexico | Pyramid of the Sun | Teotihuacano | 223.5 | 71.2 | 32.494 | 2 A.D. | There are also dozens of platforms 4 stories high lining the Avenue of the Dead at Teotihuacan. These each step in each story and they have a stair way to the top in front of the platforms. | ||
Teotihuacan Mexico | Pyramid of the Moon | Teotihuacano | 43 | 2 A.D. | |||||
El Tepozteco Mexico | Aztec | 1502 CE | |||||||
Tula, Hidalgo Mexico | Toltec | ||||||||
Uxmal Mexico | Pyramid of the Magician | Maya | |||||||
Uxmal Mexico | La Gran Pyramide | Maya | |||||||
Xochicalco Mexico | Temple of the Feather Serpent | 200 BCE to 900 CE | |||||||
Xochicalco Mexico | 200 BCE to 900 CE | This is one of several other step-pyramid temples in addition to the Temple of the Feather Serpent | |||||||
Xochitecatl Mexico | The Pyramid of Flowers | 100 by 140 | the Preclassic Period | ||||||
Xochitecatl Mexico | The Spiral Building | 700 BCE | This is a circular stepped pyramid. The interior of the structure consists of volcanic ash. The building has no stairway giving access to the top, it was climbed by following the spiral form of the building itself. | ||||||
Yaxchilan Mexico | Maya | 600 to 900 CE | This is one of the pyramids on the upper terrace of Yaxchilan |
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