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Chichén Itzá: Then and Now

Great Maya city of the Yucatán whose stepped pyramid, El Castillo, casts a serpent of light and shadow at the equinoxes.

As it was
Chichén Itzá, as it was
Las Monjas at Chichén Itzá, lithograph by Frederick Catherwood (1844). Frederick Catherwood, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The ruins today
Chichén Itzá, the ruins today
Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayMexico
StatusRuins
DateAD 900
Location20.684° N, 88.568° W
Map showing Chichén Itzá in AD 900Chichén Itzá
Border map for AD 900. See the world in AD 900.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–324 BCMaize farmers
323 BC–499Maya chiefdoms and states
500–799Maya states
800–1491Maya city-states
1492–1499Maya Yucateco
1500–1599Maya city-states
1600–1649Mayas
1650–1879Viceroyalty of New Spain
1880–todayMexico

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Further reading

Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.