The Mayan town of Uxmal, in Yucatán, was founded c. A.D. 700 and had some 25,000 inhabitants. The layout of the buildings, which date from between 700 and 1000, reveals a knowledge of astronomy. The ...

The archaeological site of Uxmal is located 62 kilometers south of Merida, forming the centre of the Puuc ("hill" or "chain of low mountains") region which covers some 7500 km 2 in the south-western ...

Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 La ville maya d'Uxmal, dans le Yucatan, a été fondée vers l'an 700 et compta jusqu'à 25 000 habitants. Construits entre 700 et 1000, ses ...

but soon discovered water cisterns built across the Puuc region and Yucatan. Cities not located by rivers used these artificial cisterns or chultuns to store water, and Uxmal even had an artificial ...