Chichen Itza
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The name, meaning “Mouth of the Wells of Itzá,” is derived from the Itzá tribe of Maya Native Americans that formerly occupied it and from the two natural wells that supplied the city with water; the religious and cultural life of the city was centered on those wells. Chichén Itzá was founded early in the 6th century ad and abandoned about the year 670. Rebuilt some 300 years later, when the Itzá returned to the region, it became the most important city of northern Yucatán and a centre of Maya culture.
The architecture of this period shows Toltec influence, but it is unclear how that influence gained hold in Chichen Itzá. The city finally fell in around 1200. Subsequently, the Itzá appear to have been a part of an alliance in the Postclassic centre of Mayapán, which itself collapsed in the century before the Spanish conquest.
