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Surroundings:

Copan Structure/Temple 22Ball Court CpanWest side of Temple 16, with Altar QAltar QA view of the Great Plaza of Copan

Location:

  • Honduras, Copán Ruinas
  • geo:14.838131,-89.141357
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • 710 / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=101317

Annotations

The ornately decorated and inscribed stairway and temple pyramid (Structure 10L-26) in Copan. The penultimate building stage was completed by King Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil in 710, and the last stage was completed by King K'ak' Yipyaj Chan K'awiil in 755.


Nearby

Structure 10L-22

Temple pyramid in Copan.

Ball Court

Ball court in Copan.

Copan

Pre-Columbian Maya city.


This object was added by Ian Mladjov on 2025-05-17. Last update by René Voorburg on 2025-05-23. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/101317 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
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