El Caracol - Chichén Itzá
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| Address : | Chichén Itzá, Yuc., Mexico |
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| City : | Yuc. |
| Description : | Ruins of an ancient Mayan observatory from AD 906, featuring an interior spiral staircase. |
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Alex Montoya on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Cool, can view from a few feet away
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C Mancer on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Hand made by the owner Ricardo. Great leather shoes
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Mark Pabst on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I visited Chichen Itza 25 years ago when there were no vendors and you could climb on the ruins. The spiral staircase is no longer accessible at the Caracol.
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Mihai Filip on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ El Caracol was an Astronomical Observatory, here you can see how advanced the Mayans were.
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Arieh Abecassis on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Amazing Archaeological Site. This area was an astronomical observation site. The whole building suggests that it was used to look upon the sky and for ceremonial purposes. Really beautiful and well preserved.
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Magnus Ericson on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The El Caracol or Observatory is the ruin of a building south of the Great Pyramid.
These guys who built this piece knew exactly what they were doing. It is constructed at the same time that people in Europe still believed that the earth was flat as a pancake.
The construction is aimed at 27.5 degrees north of west which is not in line with the other buildings on the site but an almost perfect direction for Venus northernmost position in the sky.
In addition, a diagonal formed by the northeast and southwest corners of the building is in line with both sunrise at summer solstice and sunset at winter solstice.
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Robert Chomicz on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The caracol observatory is located away from the main plaza of Chichen Itza so make sure that you don't miss it. There is no access to the upper levels of the structure so it must be viewed from some distance and the interior of the observatory is sadly, off limits.
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Matthew Lyons on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is really cool. The Maya were fascinated with the stars and watched them closely with the belief that they could predict events and shed light on the past. Seeing what they built in order to do that is impressive to say the least.
If you're in the area, you can't miss a visit to Chichen Itza, it's an amazing site!
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