Toltec city situated among the Maya city-states of the Yucatán peninsula, Mexico. Built on the site of an earlier Maya settlement, the city was at its height from around
AD 980 to 1220 (the Classic and Post-Classic periods), after Toltec peoples from central Mexico settled here. Ruins of many important buildings remain from this time. These include a great pyramid (
Castillo), temples with sculptures and colour reliefs, an observatory, and a sacred well (
cenote), into which sacrifices, including human beings, were thrown.
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