El Castillo Spanish for "the castle", also known as the Temple of Kukulcan, is a Mesoamerican step-pyramid that dominates the center of the Chichen Itza. Built by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization sometime between the 9th and 12th centuries served as a temple to the god Kukulkan, the Yucatec Maya Feathered Serpent deity. The pyramid consists of a series of square terraces with stairways up each of the four sides to the temple on top. It is one of the most recognized and widely visited pre-Columbian structures in present-day Mexico Chichén-Itzá, Yucatan, Mexico.