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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  • Type: Ruins
  • Description: main Temple of Tenochtitlan
  • Also known as: “Böyük Məbəd”, “Böyük Məbəd piramidası”, “Grande pyramide de Tenochtitlan”, “Templo Mayor archaeological site”, “Templo Mayor piramidası”, “zona arqueológica del Templo Mayor”, “主神廟”, “特諾奇蒂特蘭大金字塔”, and “特诺奇蒂特兰大金字塔”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral and Museo Archivo de la Fotografía.

Church
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The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, also commonly called the , is the cathedral church of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico. is situated 180 metres west of Templo Mayor.

Museum
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The is a museum in the located in "La Casa de las Ajaracas", built at the end of the 16th century, at Guatemala street #34.

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 of , centered on the Plaza de la Constitución, has been the heart of the nation since Aztec times. Its colonial and European architecture and narrow cobblestone streets set it apart from the rest of Mexico City.

Quarter
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was a pre-Columbian altepetl, or city-state, in the . Its inhabitants, known as the Tlatelolca, were part of the Mexica, a Nahuatl-speaking people who arrived in what is now central Mexico in the 13th century.

Neighborhood
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is one of the better-known neighborhoods or colonias in the Cuauhtémoc borough of . The neighborhood is shaped like a long triangle with the boundaries: Paseo de la Reforma on the north, Avenida Chapultepec on the south, and Eje 1 Poniente on the east. is situated 3 km west of Templo Mayor.

Templo Mayor

Latitude
19.43492° or 19° 26′ 6″ north
Longitude
-99.13149° or 99° 7′ 53″ west
Open location code
76F2CVM9+XC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1423783282
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q774021
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Templo Mayor” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Templo Mayor”
  • Basque: “Tenplu Nagusia”
  • Catalan: “Temple Major”
  • Chinese: “主神庙”
  • Chinese: “大神庙”
  • Chinese: “大神廟”
  • Croatian: “Velika piramida u Tenochtitlánu”
  • Dutch: “Templo Mayor”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المعبد الرئيسى”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Templo”
  • 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”
  • Turkish: “Templo Mayor”
  • Ukrainian: “Темпло майор”
  • “Hueyi teocalli”
  • “Huēyi teōcalli”

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