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Cholula's pyramid is the largest ever built

Its base measures roughly 450 metres a side in Puebla, Mexico The Great Pyramid of Cholula was built in stages over many centuries and now looks like a grassy hill topped by a colonial church. Its base is about 450 metres on each side, and its total volume is estimated at 4.45 million cubic metres, larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza. Spanish builders quarried part of it for local construction before realising what it was. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Its base measures roughly 450 metres a side in Puebla, Mexico. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.