Mexico in Numbers: The country’s tallest pyramids

Mexico is famous for its pyramids. The Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacán. El Castillo (also known as The Temple of Kukulcán) at Chichén Itzá. The Pyramid of the Magician at Uxmal. The list goes on.

One pyramid that is lesser known, but no less impressive, is the Toniná Pyramid, located in the southern state of Chiapas.

At 74 meters, the Toniná Pyramid is Mexico’s tallest pyramid, although part of its height comes from the natural hill into which it was built.

Toniná is barely half the height of the world’s tallest pyramid — that’s Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza, which measures 146.6 meters.

However, what Mexico’s pyramids lack in height, they make up in girth.

The Cholula pyramid, for example, is only 66 meters tall, yet it is the largest in the world by volume. Measuring 300 meters by 315 meters at its base, it has an estimated volume of 4.45 million cubic meters — nearly double the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Want to know how tall it is and which other pyramids rank among Mexico’s five tallest? Check out our infographic below!