Terminal Classic
900 C.E - 1200 C.E.
Overcrowding, famine, climate change, deforestation, and major geologic catastrophes during this period all contributed to the migration from the large late classic centers. Also the internal civil war from central mexico drained the strength of the civilzation.
The overwhelming desire of ancient Mexicans to possess exotic merchandise is attested to by Mayan ruins on Isla Cerritos, an island only 650 feet in diameter, off the north coast of the Yucatan Peninsula,
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El Meco - The Cancun regions version of the ancient Maya port city of Tulum. In this case it is the port city of "El Meco". The Mayan City of El Meco is believed to be named after the infirmity of a local coconut plantation owner of a former era
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El Rey is a small site located in Cancún. It is also known as the Kinich Ahau Group, the king of the Sun's Face, after a carved stone human head found there.
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Very little is written about San Gervaso, on the island of Cozumel. What is know is that Cozumel was a place for healing and relaxing. Todays equivalent might be a health spa.
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Tulum in Mayan refers to its fortress like walls, but the real Mayan name for the site was "Zama" which means dawn. The site is located an easy drive down the coast from Playa del Carmen and is also easily accessible from Valladolid via Cobá.
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Cihuatan is the greatest known site within the country, and only the truely urban one in El Salvador, and includes 2.5 km of continuous constructions, a nucleus of great civic and religious constructions surrounded by a compact complex of domestic architecture.
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Zaachila was the last of the Zapotec capital following the fall of Monte Alban. The site flourished from 1100-1521 C.E.. Toward the end, Zaachila was conquered by Mixtecs, who occupied it until the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors.
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The settlers who rehabilitated Teayo, in the nineteenth century planned their settlement around the pre-Hispanic Castle or the Pyramid which was the heart and center of the town.
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