Templo Mayor

The Templo Mayor was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenōchtitlan, which is now . Its architectural style belongs to the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica.
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  • Temple
  • …lies at an elevation of 2,242 metres (7,356 feet)
  • …is also known as “Templo Mayor archaeological site”
  • Description: main Temple of Tenochtitlan

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral and Templo Mayor Museum.

Church
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The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the… is situated 190 metres west of Templo Mayor.

Museum
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is situated 120 metres east of Templo Mayor.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Centro and Tlatelolco.

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The old city center or Histórico…

Quarter
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was a pre-Columbian altepetl, or city-state, in the .

Neighborhood
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is one of the better-known… is situated 3 km west of Templo Mayor.

Templo Mayor

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Latitude
19.435° or 19° 26′ 6″ north
Longitude
-99.1314° or 99° 7′ 53″ west
Open location code
76F2CVP9+2C
Geo­Names ID
6957086
Wiki­data ID
Q774021

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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Templo Mayor” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük Məbəd piramidası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük Məbəd”
  • Azerbaijani: “Templo Mayor piramidası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Templo Mayor”
  • Basque: “Tenplu Nagusia”
  • Catalan: “Temple Major”
  • Chinese: “主神庙”
  • Chinese: “主神廟”
  • Chinese: “大神庙”
  • Chinese: “大神廟”
  • Chinese: “特諾奇蒂特蘭大金字塔”
  • Chinese: “特诺奇蒂特兰大金字塔”
  • Croatian: “Velika piramida u Tenochtitlánu”
  • Dutch: “Templo Mayor”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المعبد الرئيسى”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Templo”
  • French: “Grande pyramide de Tenochtitlan”
  • French: “Templo Mayor”
  • Galician: “Templo Maior”
  • Georgian: “ტემპლო მაიორი”
  • Georgian: “ტემპლო-მაიორი”
  • German: “Templo Mayor”
  • Hebrew: “טמפלו מאיור”
  • Indonesian: “Templo Mayor”
  • Italian: “Templo Mayor”
  • Japanese: “テンプロ・マヨール”
  • Korean: “템플로 마요르”
  • Latin: “Templum Maius”
  • Latvian: “Lielais templis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Templo Mayor”
  • Norwegian: “Templo Mayor”
  • Persian: “معبد مایور”
  • Polish: “Templo Mayor”
  • Portuguese: “Templo Mayor”
  • Russian: “Темпло Майор”
  • Serbian: “Велика пирамида у Теночтитлану”
  • Slovenian: “Templo Mayor”
  • Spanish: “Templo Mayor”
  • Spanish: “zona arqueológica del Templo Mayor”
  • Turkish: “Templo Mayor”
  • Ukrainian: “Темпло майор”
  • “Huēyi teōcalli”

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