This city in Yucatan, Mexico (800-1200) was built around and above caves and cenotes (sinkholes with the region’s only potable water). Causeways connected the main monumental plaza with elite and commoner neighborhoods; all had residences and a similar inventory of ritual buildings (altar, temple, ballcourt and pyramid). Ballcourts and cenotes were portals to the Otherworld of ancestors and deities. Water and roads had associations with the cosmos and fertility; the siting of individual buildings and parts of building integrates with the Maya calendar and astronomical events. The city thus can be understood as sacred-social terrain.
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