El Tajin (Veracruz, Mexico)
El Tajín is the ruins of a principal metropolitan Classic period Maya site, located in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. El Tajin reached its heyday during the Classic Maya period, AD 250-900, when the population may have been as large as 20,000.
La Corona (Guatemala)
Yale University
A recently discovered stone panel at the Classic Period Maya (AD 250-900) center of La Corona in Guatemala has confirmed the identification of that site as the long-sought Maya center once only known as "Site Q".
Lamanai (Belize)
Darcy McCarty (c) 2006
Lamanai ("Submerged Crocodile") is a Maya site located in Orange Walk, Belize.
Nakbe (Guatemala)
R Villalobos Jan 2005, fair use
The Nakbe site is a central city of the Maya civilization located in the central lowlands of the Peten peninsula in Guatemala.
Tikal (Guatemala)
Located in what is now Guatemala, the kingdom of Tikal's ceremonial center covered more than 550 acres and was one of the largest and most elaborate of any Maya city.
Uxmal (Yucatan, Mexico)
Abel Pardo López
The ruins of the great Puuc regional center of Uxmal ("Thrice Built" or "Place of Three Harvests" in the Mayan language) are located north of the Puuc hills of the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico.
Xunantunich (Belize)
Josh M (c) 2006
The archaeological ruins of Xunantunich, located in west Central Belize represent a Late and Terminal Classic period occupation (ca. AD 650-1000).
