Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/February 2016




 * ... that at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the Kaqchikel Maya city of Iximche (pictured) was the second most important city in the Guatemalan Highlands?
 * ... that Xaltocan, an island in Mexico, means "sandy ground of spiders" in Nahuatl?
 * ... although the Epi-Olmec culture did not attain the far-reaching achievements of the earlier Olmec culture, it did realize a greater level of cultural complexity with its sophisticated calendrics and writing system.