The Great Pyramid of Cholula, also known as Tlachihualtepetl (Nahuatl for "constructed mountain"), is a complex located in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. It...
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located in the metropolitan area of Puebla, Mexico. Cholula is best known for its Great Pyramid, with the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios sanctuary...
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years earlier. The site of Cholula is just west of the modern city of Puebla and served as a trading outpost. Its immense pyramid is the largest such structure...
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many parts of the world have built pyramids. The largest pyramid by volume is the Mesoamerican Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the Mexican state of Puebla....
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The largest pyramid in the world by volume is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the east-central Mexican state of Puebla. The builders of certain classic...
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Olmec-Xicallancas to the eastern side of the city. This side of the city is defined as the Great Pyramid of Cholula and east. The city has remained more...
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must be referred to as a pyramid (not just "pyramidal", "pyramid-shaped", or "in the shape of a pyramid") by reliable sources and be at least 50 meters...
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pyramid in the world, though still just over half the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza (146 metres). The second phase also saw the construction of...
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Postclassic eras of Mesoamerican chronology Great Pyramid of Cholula, the pyramid-temple complex situated at the pre-Columbian site Cholula, Puebla, the modern-day...
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formerly prominent Great Pyramid of Cholula, now on the San Andrés side. When the Spanish arrived in the 16th century, the city of Cholula was an important...
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result of great calamities and as a punishment from the heavens for grave sins they had committed. The construction of the pyramid of Cholula and the...
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built the Great Pyramid of Cholula. One of the six giants sons of Mixcoatl, the personification of the Milky Way. Mixcoatl Tower of Babel List of Mesoamerican...
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Great Pyramid of Cholula and of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan. Step pyramids were also a part of South American architecture, such as that of the Moche...
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"teocalli." Great Pyramid of Cholula Cholula (Mesoamerican site) Cholula, Puebla Churubusco Humboldt, Alexander von (2013-01-25). Views of the Cordilleras...
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Graham Hancock presents his pseudoarchaeological theories about the existence of an advanced civilization active during the last ice age. The episodes feature...
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from the Great Pyramid of Cholula on east. The center for the entire city of Cholula is considered to be in the municipality of San Pedro Cholula, where...
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The Cholula Regional Museum is a public cultural institution in Mexico situated adjacent to the Great Pyramid of Cholula within the archaeological zone...
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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...
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to that of the tower of Babel are found in Latin America. Some writers[who?] connected the Great Pyramid of Cholula to the Tower of Babel. The Dominican...
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Regional Museum of Cholula) was a psychiatric hospital situated adjacent to the Great Pyramid of Cholula at the base of the Great Pyramid of Cholula, Tlachihualtepetl...
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Puebla (redirect from Free and Sovereign State of Puebla)
are held is the Great Pyramid of Cholula. Here indigenous dances and rituals are performed. The event culminates with the Ritual of Quetzalcoatl, which...
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largest pyramid by volume (the Great Pyramid of Giza built 2560 BC Egypt stands 146.5 meters, making it 91.5 meters taller), begins in Cholula, Puebla...
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city of Maribor, Slovenia Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico Pyramiden, an abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard...
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Teotihuacan (redirect from Pyramids of the Sun and Moon)
the World after the Great Pyramid of Cholula and the Great Pyramid of Giza). Pyramid of the Moon and The Ciudadela with Temple of the Feathered Serpent...
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Spanish Empire (redirect from Empire of Spain)
cavalry charge. Thousands of Tlaxcalans joined the invaders against their Aztec rulers. Cortés's forces sacked the city of Cholula, massacring 6,000 inhabitants...
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Tourism in Mexico (redirect from History of tourism in Mexico)
ruins of Teotihuacán, including the Pyramid of the Sun and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl. To the southeast near the city of Cholula is the Great Pyramid, visible...
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Recta a Cholula, also known as Vía Volkswagen or Ruta Quetzalcóatl, is a local highway that connects the cities of Puebla and Cholula, in the Mexican...
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List of pre-twentieth century structures by height History of the world's tallest buildings List of tallest buildings and structures McKenzie, Judith (2011)...
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Talud-tablero present on platform along Avenue of the Dead, Teotihuacan Great Pyramid of Cholula, Puebla, Mexico Other sites where talud-tablero architecture can...
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the largest pyramid in the world—The Great Pyramid of Cholula—began to be constructed by the inhabitants of Cholula in the 3rd century BCE. In the Andean...
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