SIC reports Iximché covers ~15,570 m² with more than 170 structures, organized around six civic-ceremonial plaza groups (A–F) with temples, elongated platforms, and altars.
Claim about Iximché · Stance: supporting
SIC provides an approximate area and structure count and describes multiple plaza groups with repeated architectural elements (pyramidal temples, platforms, altars), plus clusters of smaller ceremonial structures (including eleven in Plaza A).
Site
- Iximché Tecpán, Chimaltenango, Guatemala
Evidence for and against
- SIC reports approximate site area (~15,570 m²), structure count (>170), and six civic-ceremonial plaza groups with temples/platforms/altars
Other claims about Iximché
- Iximché is located in Tecpán, Chimaltenango, at about 2,260 m elevation, on/near the Ratzamut promontory with deep surrounding ravines.
- Guatemala’s Ministry of Culture (SIC) frames Iximché as a Postclásico Tardío city (1250–1524 CE) associated with the Kaqchikel kingdom.
- SIC describes engineered defenses: an artificial ditch cutting the promontory and an entrance defended by two gates ‘guarnecidas de obsidiana’.
- SIC states Iximché held the distinction of the first Spanish-era capital for roughly 1524–1526 CE before being burned amid conflict.