Cholula (Mesoamerican site)
Important city of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the pre-Columbian polity and archaeological site. For the present-day Mexican city, see Cholula, Puebla. For other uses, see Cholula (disambiguation).
Cholula (Spanish: [tʃoˈlula] ⓘ; Nahuatl languages: Cholōllān, Otomi: Mä'ragi) was an important city of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, dating back to at least the 2nd century BCE, with settlement as a village going back at least some thousand years earlier. The site of Cholula is just west of the modern city of Puebla and served as a trading outpost. Its immense pyramid is the largest such structure in the Americas, and the largest pyramid structure by volume in the world, measuring 4.45 million cubic meters.[1]
Cholula was one of the key religious centers of ancient Mexico.[2]