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Chancalá

Mexico

Chancala (also known as La Cascada-Chancalá), anciently called Chak K'uh, is a Precolumbian Maya archaeological site located in the municipality of Palenque in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Chancala was a city of the Classic period of the Maya civilization that had its own dynasty and emblem glyph and developed as an autonomous political power within the region dominated by the great Maya city of Palenque. Chancala contains more than 20 ceremonial structures, including a Palenque-style temple on a six-level pyramid base and a Mesoamerican ballgame court.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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