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Pyramid of Santa Cecilia Acatitlan

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19.5347°N, 99.1969°W GIZA 45.08° DIST 12,362 km POWER 3/10
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Coordinates19.5347°N, 99.1969°W
Giza Bearing45.08°
Distance12,362 km
Power3/10

19.5347°N, 99.1969°W.

The Pyramid of Santa Cecilia Acatitlan, in the modern town of Santa Cecilia in the State of Mexico, is one of the most complete surviving Aztec twin-temple pyramids — though only one of its two original summit shrines is intact today. The pyramid was built between approximately 1400 and 1500 CE during the Aztec Triple Alliance, of cut stone faced with stucco, rising 12 metres in stepped tiers with a central staircase on its western face. The single surviving summit shrine, dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, retains its original stone roof, lintel, and interior altar — extremely rare among Aztec temples that survived the Conquest. The pyramid was reconstructed by Eduardo Pareyón Moreno for INAH in 1961, controversially restoring missing elements based on parallels to other twin-temple pyramids.

The Pyramid of Santa Cecilia Acatitlan is one of the few Aztec temples where you can stand inside the summit shrine the way the priests did.

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