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Pyramids, Tzintzuntzan, Mexico
A majestic row of five circular pyramids known as yácatas dominates a promontory overlooking Lake Pátzcuaro in the western Mexican state of Michoacán. Embodying the former might of the Purépecha Empire, which flourished from around 1350 to 1530, the pyramids rise in the center of the imperial capital of Tzintzuntzan, or “place of the hummingbirds” in Purépecha, a language still spoken by more than 100,000 people in Michoacán. Known as the Tarascan Empi
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