The Great Pyramid or Templo Mayor was the main temple of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City). Rising some 60 meters above the city's ritual precinct at the time of the conquest, the pyramid was surmounted by dual shrines to Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc. It was last enlarged and rededicated, with over 20,000 people killed, in the year 1487. The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th century. ... Plan of Tenochtitlan (Dr Atl) Mexico City statue commemorating the foundation of Tenochtitlan Tenochtitlan (pronounced ) or, alternatively, Mexico-Tenochtitlan, was the capital of the Aztec empire, which was built on an island in Lake Texcoco in what is now central Mexico. ... Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the name of a megacity located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus (altiplano) at the center of Mexico, about 2,240 metres (7,349 feet) above sea-level, surrounded on most sides... In Aztec mythology, Huitzilopochtli, also spelled Uitzilopochtli (hummingbird of the south or he of the south or hummingbird on the left), was a god of war and a sun god and the patron of the city of Tenochtitlán. ... Tlaloc, as depicted in the Magliabechi Codex Tlaloc was, in Aztec mythology, the god of rain and fertility. ...

External links

• [1]: Website of the Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City