====== El Tajín ======

>El Tajín, Prehispanic City is a site with great significance for Mesoamerican archaeology because it is one of the best preserved and most thoroughly excavated examples of a pre-Hispanic town from the Epiclassic and early Post Classic period, the time between the fall of Teotihuacan and the rise of the Aztec empire.\\ \\ Source : [[https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631|UNESCO]]

It's estimated to have been at its peak between 800 to 1200 A.D, with roughly 20,000 inhabitants.

>The site is located in Mexico in the highlands of the municipality of Papantla in modern-day Veracruz, not far from the city of Poza Rica, which lies northwest of the port and city of Veracruz.\\ \\ Source : [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Taj%C3%ADn|Wikipedia]]

It's not known who built the city :

>Some argue in favor of the Totonacs and the Xapaneca; however, there is a significant amount of evidence that the area was populated by the Huastec at the time the settlement.\\ \\ [link as above]

Or, why it was eventually abandoned.