Tenayuca

Pyramid of Tenayuca
The Aztec pyramid of Tenayuca
Region	Valley of Mexico
Status	preserved, with museum
Location
Location	Greater Mexico City.
Municipality	Tlalnepantla de Baz
State	Mexico State
Geographic coordinates	19°31′55.8″N 99°10′6.5″W / 19.532167°N 99.168472°W / 19.532167; -99.168472
Architecture
Type	Temple
Style	Aztec
Specifications
Direction of façade	West
Length	52 meters
Width	60 meters
Website
Tenayuca at INAH (in Spanish)

Tenayuca (Nahuatl languages: Tenanyohcān pronounced [te.naˈyoʔ.kaːn]) is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the Valley of Mexico. In the Postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology, Tenayuca was a settlement on the former shoreline of the western arm of Lake Texcoco. It was located approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the northwest of Tenochtitlan (the heart of present-day Mexico City).

Tenayuca is considered to be the earliest capital city of the Chichimec, nomadic tribes who migrated and settled in the Valley of Mexico, where they formed their own empire.^[1]