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Great Pyramid of Cholula

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19.0575°N, 98.3017°W GIZA 45.74° DIST 12,333 km POWER 3/10
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Coordinates19.0575°N, 98.3017°W
Giza Bearing45.74°
Distance12,333 km
Power3/10

19.0575°N, 98.3017°W.

The Great Pyramid of Cholula, called Tlachihualtepetl ("man-made mountain") in Nahuatl, sits in the modern town of San Andrés Cholula in Puebla, Mexico, and is the largest pyramid by volume ever constructed — approximately 4.45 million cubic metres of adobe brick, stone, and earth fill. The pyramid was built in at least four superimposed phases between roughly 200 BCE and 800 CE, reaching a base of 400 metres per side and a height of 66 metres. After the Spanish Conquest, Hernán Cortés ordered a Catholic chapel built on its summit in 1594 — the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios — without recognizing that the hill beneath was the pyramid the city was supposed to have buried. Tunneling by the Mexican Pyramid Project beginning in 1931 has exposed over 8 km of internal passages.

The Great Pyramid is a building so large the conquistadors mistook it for the hill they put their church on.

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Reference Bearings · 20 landmarks
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