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Balankanche (also Balancanche, Balaamcanche, Balaancanche) is an ancientMaya cave site lying at short distance from the archaeological Maya-Toltec city ofChichen Itza,Yucatan. For more than two thousand years, it has been the focus of rituals dedicated to the Maya rain god,Chaac, and, in the Post-Classic period, also to hisToltec counterpart,Tlaloc. The cave complex was visited byEdward Thompson andAlfred Tozzer in 1905 and has since 1932 been explored and studied by various Mexican and US scholars. Small buildings and platforms surrounded the cave's entrance; inside, stairs, walls, altars and ritual displays of ceramics (especially censers) and small stone implements were discovered. The site has been made accessible for tourists.
