The city of Chichen-Itza was founded throughout the Classic period near two common depressions (cenotes or chenes), which gave the town its name "At the edge of the well of the Itzaes". The cenotes encouraged tapping the underground waters of the range. The dates for this settlement differ as stated by consequent neighborhood accounts: one original copy gives 415-35 A.d., while others say 455 A.d. The town that grew up around the area known as Chichen Viejo effectively bragged critical landmarks of extraordinary investment: the Nunnery, the Church, Akab Dzib, Chichan Chob, the Temple of the Panels and the Temple of the Deer. They were developed between the sixth and the tenth hundreds of years in the trademark Maya style then well known both in the northern and southern zones of the Puuc mounds.

The second settlement of Chichen-Itza, and the most significant for antiquarians, related to the relocation of Toltec warriors from the Mexican level towards the south throughout the tenth century. As stated by the most well-known form, the King of Tula, Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, or Kukulkan as the Maya interpreted the name, purportedly took the city between 967 A.d. furthermore 987 A.d.

Emulating the victory of Yucatn another style mixing the Maya and Toltec conventions created, symbolizing the wonder of cultural assimilation. Chichen-Itza is an agreeable outline of this combination. Particular cases are, in the gathering of structures to the south, the Caracol, a round stellar observatory whose winding staircase represents its name, and, to the north, El Castillo (otherwise called the Temple of Kukulkan). Encompassing El Castillo are patios where the real fantastic buildings were fabricated: on the north-west are the Great Ball Court, Tzompantli or the Skull Wall, the sanctuary known as the Jaguar Temple, and the House of Eagles; on the north-east are the Temple of the Warriors, the Group of the Thousand Columns, the Market and the Great Ball Court; on the south-west is the Tomb of the High Priest.

After the thirteenth century no significant landmarks appear to have been developed at Chichen-Itza and the city quickly declined after around 1440 A.d. The remains were not uncovered until 1841 A.d.

The landmarks of Chichen-Itza, especially in the northern gathering, which incorporates the Great Ball Court, the Temple of Kukulkan and the Temple of the Warriors, are around the undisputed artful culminations of Mesoamerican structural engineering in light of the magnificence of their extents, the refinement of their development and the wonder of their etched beautifications.

The landmarks of Chichen-Itza pushed an impact all around the whole Yucatan social zone from the tenth to the fifteenth century.

Chichen-Itza is the most essential archeological vestige of the Maya-Toltec human progress in Yucatan (tenth fifteenth hundreds of years).

From its surrender throughout the fifteenth century, Chichen-Itza experienced a procedure of progressive decay until the first unearthings at the site started more than a century prior. In any case, the fabulous materials and building procedures utilized by the Maya as a part of the development of the structures secured that the architectonic, sculptural and pictorial being of Chichen-Itza might be saved as the centuries progressed.

Until today the components that pass on the Outstanding Universal Value of the property have been protected. In any case, revelations at the site that are not recognized in the first defensive polygon ought to be formally included. Moreover, there are various dangers to the trustworthiness of the site, determined from extreme utilization or deficient foundation improvement to give administrations, which will oblige steady control so as to evade negative effects.

The state of realness met by the site right now of its engraving was kept up. Then again, the utilization of the property as stage for disconnected social occasions has started an examination concerning the effect of these exercises on the preservation and realness of the site. To guarantee that utilization and capacity, and also the character of the site are kept up, authorization of administrative measures and security instruments are needed.

Chichen-Itza is secured by the 1972 Federal Law on Monuments and Archeological, Artistic and Historic Zones and was announced an archeological landmark by a presidential declaration in 1986.

The site remains open to general society 365 days of the year, and accepted at least 3.500 vacationers for every day, a number which can achieve 8.000 day by day guests in the high season. This implies that the site needs consistent upkeep and consideration so as to dodge weakening of its prehispanic fabric.

Yucatan is the main state in Mexico where two establishments are included in the administration of archeological destinations: the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), which is responsible for the consideration and preservation of the archeological site, and the Board of Units of Cultural and Tourism Services of the State of Yucatan.

The Board was made in 1987 keeping in mind the end goal to deal with the Units of Cultural and Tourism Services of the archeological destinations of Uxmal, Chichen-Itza, Kabah, Sayil, Labna, Zibichaltn and the Caves of Loltn and Balancanche.

Medium and long haul exercises at Chichen-Itza, including examination, preservation, topical translation, organization and operation of the site, are tended to in the "Administration Plan of the Pre-hispanic City of Chichen-Itza". The reason for the Plan is to expressive and direction the exercises at the site, particularly those outfitted towards the mise en valeur of the property and the era of cooperation of the distinctive divisions included in the administration, including the overall population.

No crisis arrangement exists for the site and there is no long haul screening of the state of preservation, because of absence of faculty. This puts the site at danger from characteristic and anthropogenic calamities, and from longer term debasement. Dangers like flame and lime stone disintegration have been highlighted.