Adoratories or Miniature Temples (Adoratorios)

Adoratories or Miniature Temples are small structures. There are many of them in Tulum, some of which are exact copies of great temples. They probably functioned as altars where sacrifices were made. Although due to their size, access inside was impossible for people. A group of six buildings no taller than a meter; they were likely used to store stone sculptures or ceramic censers in which some aromatic resin was burned, such as copal (a hard substance similar to amber, a fossilized natural resin predominantly secreted by tropical trees of the legume family). The word comes from copalli (incense) of the Mexican indigenous language).