"Mayapan (M\u00E0ayap\u00E1an in Modern Maya), (in Spanish Mayap\u00E1n) is a Pre-Columbian Maya site a couple of kilometers south of the town of Telchaquillo in Municipality of Tecoh, approximately 40 km south-east of M\u00E9rida and 100 km west of Chichen Itza; in the state of Yucat\u00E1n, Mexico. Mayapan was the political and cultural capital of the Maya in the Yucat\u00E1n Peninsula during the Late Post-Classic period from the 1220s until the 1440s."@en . . .