Zona Arqueológica de Cholula

Cholula was an important city of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, dating back to at least the 2nd century BC, with settlement as a village going back at least some thousand years earlier [1]. The site of Cholula is just west of the modern city of Puebla and served as a trading outpost [1]. Its immense pyramid is the largest such structure in the Americas, and the largest pyramid structure by volume in the world, measuring 4.45 million cubic meters [1]. Cholula was one of the key religious centers of ancient Mexico [1]. Cholula is located in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of the central Mexican highlands [1]. Cholula grew from a very small village to a regional center between 600 BCE and 700 CE [1].