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.