Tehua­can-Cuicat­lan Val­ley, part of the Mesoamer­i­can region, is the arid or semi-arid zone with th…

In the lan­guage of the Mayan peo­ples who once inhab­it­ed this region, Sian Ka‘an means ‘Ori­gin of …

A prime exam­ple of a Mayan sanc­tu­ary of the clas­si­cal peri­od, Palenque was at its height between …

Built in the 16th cen­tu­ry by the Span­ish on the ruins of Tenochti­t­lan, the old Aztec cap­i­tal, Mex…

The holy city of Teoti­hua­can (‘the place where the gods were cre­at­ed‘) is sit­u­at­ed some 50 km nor…

Inhab­it­ed over a peri­od of 1,500 years by a suc­ces­sion of peo­ples — Olmecs, Zapotecs and Mix­tecs …

Puebla, which was found­ed ex nihi­lo in 1531, is sit­u­at­ed about 100 km east of Mex­i­co City, at the…

Found­ed by the Span­ish in the ear­ly 16th cen­tu­ry, Gua­na­ju­a­to became the world‘s lead­ing sil­ver-ex…

This sacred site was one of the great­est Mayan cen­tres of the Yucatan penin­su­la. Through­out its n…

Locat­ed in the cen­tral part of the penin­su­la of Baja Cal­i­for­nia, the sanc­tu­ary con­tains some exce…

Paquime, Casas Grandes, which reached its apogee in the 14th and 15th cen­turies, played a key rol…

Built in the 16th cen­tu­ry, More­lia is an out­stand­ing exam­ple of urban plan­ning which com­bines the…

Locat­ed in the state of Ver­acruz, El Tajin was at its height from the ear­ly 9th to the ear­ly 13th…

Found­ed in 1546 after the dis­cov­ery of a rich sil­ver lode, Zacate­cas reached the height of its pr…

The Ear­li­est 16th-Cen­tu­ry Monas­ter­ies on the Slopes of Popocate­petl is a ser­i­al prop­er­ty with 15 …

From c. 100 B.C. to A.D. 1300, the Sier­ra de San Fran­cis­co (in the El Viz­caino reserve, in Baja C…

The Mayan town of Uxmal, in Yucatan, was found­ed c. A.D. 700 and had some 25,000 inhab­i­tants. The…

The old colo­nial town of Quere­taro is unusu­al in hav­ing retained the geo­met­ric street plan of the…

The Hos­pi­cio Cabanas was built at the begin­ning of the 19th cen­tu­ry to pro­vide care and shel­ter f…

Tla­co­tal­pan, a Span­ish colo­nial riv­er port on the Gulf coast of Mex­i­co, was found­ed in the mid-16…

Campeche is a typ­i­cal exam­ple of a har­bour town from the Span­ish colo­nial peri­od in the New World…

Xochi­cal­co is an excep­tion­al­ly well-pre­served exam­ple of a for­ti­fied polit­i­cal, reli­gious and com…

The five Fran­cis­can mis­sions of Sier­ra Gor­da were built dur­ing the last phase of the con­ver­sion t…

Built in 1948, the House and Stu­dio of archi­tect Luis Bar­ra­gan in the sub­urbs of Mex­i­co City repr…