Photo location game · Americas
Mexico landmarks quiz: guess where 21 photos were taken
21 places in Mexico, each with a photo, a fact and a spot on the map. Play five of them here, then study the rest below.
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Five photos from Mexico. Tap the map where you think each one was taken.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
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The stepped Maya pyramid of Kukulcán on the Yucatán plain.
Photo: Daniel Schwen / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A silver-mining city of rainbow houses stacked in a ravine.
Photo: Maria Cv99 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An ancient city with vast pyramids along a ceremonial avenue.
Photo: Daniel Case / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mayan ruins perched on a cliff above a Caribbean beach.
Photo: Blair Stirrett / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A pink neo-Gothic church spire over a colonial town.
Photo: Carlos Valenzuela / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mexico City's white marble opera house with an orange Art Nouveau dome.
Photo: Jeses / CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
The busiest land border crossing in the world, on the edge of San Diego.
Photo: Urbaner44 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Guadalajara's twin city, home of the basilica of the Virgin of Zapopan.
Photo: Another Believer / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
One of the largest cities in the world, built on the drained lake of the Aztec capital.
Photo: Gobierno CDMX / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
A baroque colonial city with a 1.3-km aqueduct of 74 stone arches.
Photo: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Maya city in the Chiapas jungle with a palace tower and a royal tomb.
Photo: Ljuba brank at Slovenian Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pico de Orizaba, Mexico's highest peak, a 5,636-metre volcano.
Photo: dinesh rao / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Maya city deep in the jungle, its great pyramid rising above the canopy.
Photo: Lugares INAH / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Zapotec capital on a flattened hilltop above Oaxaca, 2,500 years old.
Photo: Dacuauhtli / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Caribbean reserve of mangroves, lagoons and reef whose Maya name means 'origin of the sky'.
Photo: Oogstweg / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The last great Maya capital of Yucatán, with a pyramid modelled on Chichén Itzá's.
Photo: Globetrotteur17... Ici, là-bas ou ailleurs... / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A pre-Columbian city with a pyramid of 365 niches, one for each day of the year.
Photo: Photograph: Frank C. Müller, Baden-Baden / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A hilltop city with the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, from around AD 700.
Photo: Juan Francisco Contreras Fernández / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mexico's industrial capital, beneath the saddle-shaped Cerro de la Silla.
Photo: Nathaniel C. Sheetz / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Volcanic Pacific islands where sharks, rays and whales gather, the 'Mexican Galápagos'.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A colonial river port of pastel arcaded houses in Veracruz.
Photo: panza.rayada / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
Mexico's 21 places line up west to east, Tijuana first and Tulum last, 3,250 km apart. Four places share a 120 km patch near the middle: Teotihuacán, Palace of Fine arts, Mexico City and Xochicalco. Keep Tijuana apart in your head; its nearest company, Revillagigedo Islands, is 1,600 km off.
Count them: four easy, eight medium, nine hard. Teotihuacán and Tulum are where to concentrate. Mayapan is the last great Maya capital of Yucatán, with a pyramid modelled on Chichén Itzá's.
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Play the daily in the appQuestions & answers
How many places in Mexico are in the game?
21, from Tijuana in the north to Monte Albán in the south. A round here plays five of them.
Which photo from Mexico is the hardest?
Teotihuacán, Tulum and San Miguel de Allende are rated hard, with six more. On hard photos the score halves every 451 km beyond the accuracy radius.
Which one is easiest to score full points on?
Guanajuato: its accuracy radius is 35 km, so any pin inside that circle scores 5,000.