Comalcalco (archaeological site)

Comalcalco

Comalcalco Temple I
Location	Comalcalco, Tabasco,  Mexico
Region	Tabasco
Coordinates	18°16′46″N 93°12′04″W / 18.27944°N 93.20111°W / 18.27944; -93.20111
History
Founded	ca. 550 CE
Abandoned	ca. 1000 CE
Periods	Late Classic
Cultures	Maya
Site notes
Excavation dates	1892, 1950s, 1960, 1994
Archaeologists	Désiré Charnay, Frans Blom, Oliver LaFarge, George F. Andrews, Ponciano Salazar Ortegón, Gordon Ekholm, Román Piña Chan, Ricardo Armijo University of Tulane, American Museum of Natural History, INAH
Architecture
Architectural styles	Late Classic Maya
Architectural details	Number of temples: 9
Responsible body: INAH

Comalcalco is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the State of Tabasco, Mexico, adjacent to the modern city of Comalcalco and near the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It is the only major Maya city built with bricks rather than limestone masonry and was the westernmost city of the Maya civilisation. Covering an area of 7 km² (2.7 sq mi), Comalcalco was founded in the Late Classic period and may have been a satellite or colony of Palenque based on architectural similarities between the two.^[1] The city was a center of the Chontal Maya people.^[2]