Temple 2

14.7408°N, 90.9917°W.

Temple 2 at Iximché in the Guatemalan highlands above the modern town of Tecpán is the second-largest pyramid at the Postclassic capital of the Kaqchikel Maya. The pyramid was built between approximately 1470 and 1524 CE on a defensive ridge with steep ravines on three sides, of cut stone and adobe rising about 7 metres in stepped tiers. Iximché was the seat of the Kaqchikel kingdom that initially allied with Pedro de Alvarado against the rival K'iche' Maya in 1524, and Alvarado briefly designated Iximché the first Spanish capital of Guatemala (Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala) before the alliance collapsed and the Kaqchikel rebelled. The Spanish abandoned Iximché in 1526 and burned it during the Kaqchikel uprising. The site was excavated by Jorge Guillemin and Guatemala's IDAEH for the Iximché project in the 1960s.

Temple 2 is a pyramid in the city the Spanish briefly named their capital and then burned down two years later.