Great Acropolis

19.5964°N, 90.2286°W.

The Great Acropolis at Edzná in central Campeche, Mexico, is the elevated ceremonial precinct that supports the Building of the Five Stories along with several smaller temple-pyramids and the Temple of the Masks. The acropolis platform was built up over multiple phases between approximately 400 BCE and 1000 CE, rising 6 metres above the plaza level on a massive stone fill foundation that covers more than 8,000 square metres. The complex sits at the northern edge of Edzná's main plaza, anchoring the city's principal axis. Excavations by Antonio Benavides Castillo for INAH from the 1980s onward documented the long sequence of construction layers and the city's distinctive Petén-style influence absorbed and transformed in this part of the western Yucatán. The acropolis platform supports the Building of the Five Stories on its eastern edge, the Temple of the Masks on the south, and a temple complex called the Nohochná on the west.

The Great Acropolis is a platform big enough to be a city block, holding up another city block on top of it.