20.1735°N, 89.6544°W.
The Great Palace at Sayil in the Puuc Hills of Yucatán, Mexico, is a three-story palatial structure built between approximately 800 and 1000 CE during the late Puuc florescence. The building is 85 metres long and contains more than 90 vaulted rooms across its three levels, with the upper terraces set back to create the distinctive stepped Puuc profile. The exterior is faced with finely cut limestone blocks and a colonnaded gallery on the second story, with column-and-mask façade panels at intervals along the main register. Sayil was a city of roughly 10,000 inhabitants whose population depended on rainwater collected in chultunes — bottle-shaped underground cisterns numbering in the hundreds across the precinct. The site was mapped by Edwin Shook and excavated in detail by Jeremy Sabloff and Gair Tourtellot in the 1980s.
The Great Palace is a building stretching the length of a football field on a hilltop where every drop of drinking water was caught in a stone jar.
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| angkor wat | 337.31° | 15,998 km |
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| teotihuacan | 268.39° | 962 km |
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| sedona | 311.64° | 2,713 km |
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