During the colonial period historical passages were written by mayas and spaniards in order to archive old events. "Mayapan was a place protected by a great natural. A great deal of building complexes are distributed inside the rampart; one of the most important being the central group that is placed around the castle. The castle group is conformed mainly in enlongated buildings with columns forming the hallways that open up in plazas with altars. The castle of Kukulcan, main structure of mayapan , is a pyramid of nine bodies that rises to a height of 15 meters. Currently archaeologists of the INAH are restoring this important monument. Already, 15 burrial sites have already been located in the vicinity of the construccion, most of them of adults and some children.

In Mayapan there are many temples with serpentine columns in conbination with altars and sanctuaries. The concept of the columns was popular  used frequently. There are also hundreds of low plataforms that were the foundations for the huts used by the general population. The castle, with a basement similar in style to Chichen Itza, is one of the most relevant in Mayapan. Also note worthy are some circular buildings, similar to the "Caracol" (Snail Shell) or observatory located at the same sight.

When the Cocom were defeated, Mayapan was abandoned and its people re-established themselves in Sotuta. Antonio de Ciudad Real points out that in Mayapan there were many basements and walls of houses made of stone and mortar; many mounds and temples for idols, specially a tall one with four rock stairways that reached up to the top, oriented towards the cardinal points; resting on the top there was a house made of stone and mortar with a vault ceiling of curved intrados and small chambers in which the high priests of their idols went to pray. Close to the base of this mound there is a deep cenote where they sacrified victims in honour of their gods.

In the middle of the XVI Century, in Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan, Fray Diego de Landa remarks that "about the account of indians, there had passed 120 years since Mayapan was depopulated... that these people had had more than 20 years of abundance and health, and multiplied so much that the entire earth seemed like a single town; and that the temples were then carved with so much multitude that is viewed today everywhere, and that beyond the thicket , among the trees, there can be seen settlements and buildings carved in wonder."

A visit to Mayapan prvides insight into the tribal groups that controlled their territories from early time and until the point that the city was destroyed.

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