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Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan, also known as the City of the Gods, is an archeological site 40 km northeast of . Náhuatl for "the place where men became gods", Teotihuacan is home to some of the largest ancient pyramids in the world.
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  • Opening hours: 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
  • Type: Protected area
  • Description: ancient Mesoamerican city
  • Also known as: “archeological site of Teotihuacan”, “City of the Gods”, “City of the Sun”, “Ciudad prehispánica de Teotihuacán”, “Place of Reeds”, “Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan”, “Teotihuacán”, “Teotihuacán Municipality”, and “Zona de Monumentos Arqueologicos de Teotihuacan”
  • Wheelchair access: limited

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pyramid of the Moon and Temple of the Feathered Serpent, Teotihuacan.

Photo: Pimpinellus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is the second-largest pyramid in Teotihuacan, after the , and located in modern-day , .

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Temple of the Feathered Serpent is the third largest pyramid at Teotihuacan, a pre-Columbian site in central . This pre-Columbian city rose around the first or second century BCE and its occupation prolonged through to the 600s or 700s.

Photo: Armineaghayan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The complex are ruins located in Teotihuacán. The complex is best known for the Palace of and the stone reliefs in its courtyard.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Martín de las Pirámides Municipality.

Town
San Martín de las Pirámides is a municipality in the in . The municipality covers an area of 70 km2. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 21,511.

Teotihuacan

Latitude
19.6904° or 19° 41′ 26″ north
Longitude
-98.8454° or 98° 50′ 43″ west
Elevation
2,277 metres (7,470 feet)
Operator
INAH
Open location code
76F3M5R3+5V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 558067645
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­limited
Geo­Names ID
8379475
Wiki­data ID
Q172613
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Teotihuacan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Teotihuacan”
  • Afrikaans: “Teotihuacán”
  • Arabic: “تيوتيهواكان”
  • Armenian: “Տեո Տիու Կան”
  • Armenian: “Տեոտիհուական”
  • Armenian: “Տեոտիուական”
  • Asturian: “Teotihuacán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Teotihuakan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Teotiuakan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Teotixuakan”
  • Banjar: “Teotihuacan”
  • Bashkir: “Теотиуакан”
  • Basque: “Teotihuacan”
  • Basque: “Teotihuacán”
  • Bavarian: “Teotihuacan”
  • Belarusian: “Тэатыўакан”
  • Bosnian: “Teotihuacan”
  • Breton: “Teotihuacan”
  • Bulgarian: “Теотиуакан”
  • Bulgarian: “Теотихуакан”
  • Catalan: “Civilització teotihuacana”
  • Catalan: “Teotihuacan”
  • Catalan: “Teotihuacán”
  • Chinese: “堤奧蒂瓦坎”
  • Chinese: “提奧提華坎”
  • Chinese: “提奧提華坎文明”
  • Chinese: “提奧迪華肯”
  • Chinese: “特奥提华坎”
  • Chinese: “特奥蒂瓦坎”
  • Chinese: “特奧蒂瓦坎”
  • Chinese: “眾神之城”
  • Chinese: “迪奧狄華肯”
  • Croatian: “Teotihuacan”
  • Croatian: “Teotihuacán”
  • Czech: “Teotihuacan”
  • Czech: “Teotihuacán”
  • Danish: “Teotihuacan”
  • Danish: “Teotihuacán”
  • Dutch: “Teotihuacan (historische stad)”
  • Dutch: “Teotihuacán”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تيوتيهواكان”
  • Esperanto: “Teotihuakano”
  • Esperanto: “Teotiŭakano”
  • Estonian: “Teotihuacán”
  • Finnish: “Teotihuacan”
  • Finnish: “Teotihuacán”
  • Finnish: “Teotihuakaanit”
  • French: “Teotihuacan”
  • French: “Teotihuacán”
  • Galician: “Teotihuacan”
  • Georgian: “ტეოტიუაკანი”
  • German: “Teotihuacan”
  • German: “Teotihuacán”
  • Greek: “Τεοτιουακάν”
  • Greek: “Τεοτιχουάκαν”
  • Hebrew: “טאוטיהואקן”
  • Hebrew: “טאוטיווקאן”
  • Hindi: “टियोतिहुआकान”
  • Hungarian: “Teotihuacan”
  • Icelandic: “Teotihuacan”
  • Indonesian: “Teotihuacan”
  • Italian: “Teotihuacan”
  • Italian: “Teotihuacán”
  • Japanese: “ティオティワカン”
  • Japanese: “テオティワカン”
  • Japanese: “テオティワカン文明”
  • Korean: “테오티와칸 제국”
  • Korean: “테오티와칸”
  • Korean: “테오티우아칸”
  • Ladino: “Teotihuacán”
  • Latvian: “Teotivakana”
  • Lithuanian: “Teotihuakanas”
  • Lithuanian: “Teotihuakano civilizacija”
  • Macedonian: “Теотивакан”
  • Macedonian: “Теотиуакан”
  • Malay: “Teotihuacan”
  • Malay: “Teotihuacán”
  • Maltese: “Teotihuacan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Teotihuacan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Teotihuacán”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Teotihuacán”
  • Norwegian: “Teotihuacán”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Teotihuacan”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਿਉਤੀਵਾਕਾਨ”
  • Persian: “تئوتی هواکان”
  • Persian: “تئوتیئواکان”
  • Persian: “تئوتیهوآکان”
  • Persian: “تئوتیهواکان”
  • Persian: “تئوتیواکان”
  • Piemontese: “Teotihuacan”
  • Polish: “Piramida Księżyca”
  • Polish: “Teotihuacan”
  • Polish: “Teotihuacán”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Pré-Hispânica de Teotihuacan”
  • Portuguese: “Teotihuacan”
  • Portuguese: “Teotihuacán”
  • Quechua: “Teotihuacan”
  • Quechua: “Teotihuacán”
  • Quechua: “Teotiwakan”
  • Romanian: “Teotihuacan”
  • Romanian: “Teotihuacán”
  • Russian: “Тео Тио Кан”
  • Russian: “Теотиуакан”
  • Russian: “Теотихуакан”
  • Scots: “Teotihuacan”
  • Serbian: “Teotihuacan”
  • Serbian: “Teotivakan”
  • Serbian: “Теотивакан”
  • Serbian: “Теотиуакан”
  • Serbian: “Теотихуакан”
  • Serbian: “Цивилизација Теотивакана”
  • Serbian: “Цивилизација Теотиуакана”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Teotihuacan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Teotihuacán”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Teotihuakan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Teotiuakan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Teotivakan”
  • Seri: “Sol”
  • Slovenian: “Teotihuacan”
  • Slovenian: “Teotihuacán”
  • Spanish: “Teotihuacan”
  • Spanish: “Teotihuacán”
  • Swedish: “Teotihuacan”
  • Swedish: “Teotihuacán”
  • Swedish: “Teotihuakan”
  • Tamil: “தியோத்திவாக்கன்”
  • Tatar: “Теотиуакан”
  • Thai: “เตโอติอัวกัน”
  • Thai: “เตโอตีวากาน”
  • Turkish: “Teotehuacan”
  • Turkish: “Teotiehuacan”
  • Turkish: “Teotihuacan”
  • Turkish: “Teotihuacán”
  • Turkish: “Teotihuakan”
  • Ukrainian: “Теотіуакан”
  • Vietnamese: “Teotihuacan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Teotihuacan”
  • Welsh: “Teotihuacan”
  • Welsh: “Teotihuacán”
  • Wu Chinese: “特奥蒂瓦坎”
  • Yue Chinese: “提奧迪華肯”
  • “Teotihuacan”
  • “Teotihuacán”
  • “Teōtīhuacān”
  • “Teōtīhuahcān”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Teotihuacan”. Photo: Erick1984, CC BY 3.0.