🔘Yaxha🔘•It is a Mesoamerican archaeological site and the third largest city in the l the Petén Basin region, Guatemala.

•It is a Mesoamerican archaeological site and the third largest city in the l the Petén Basin region, Guatemala.
•The name of the city derives from the Mayan for “blue-green water”.

•The Yaxha kingdom is estimated to have covered an area of 237 square kilometres (92 sq mi) and to have had a peak population of 42,000.
•The site has more than 500 structures, including about 40 stelae, 13 Altars, 9 temple pyramids, 2 Mesoamerican ballcourts, and a network of causeways.
•The site also contains a twin-pyramid complex which was an architectural innovation of the Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica.
•Twin-pyramid complexes were regularly built to celebrate the end of the 20-year kʼatun cycle of the Maya Long Count Calendar.
•A kʼatun is a unit of time in the Maya calendar equal to 7200 days, equivalent to 19.713 tropical years.

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