The Mexica calendar is the dating system based on the Mayan calendar used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico. Like the Mayan calendrical system, the Aztec calendar consisted of a ritual cycle of 260 days and a 365-day civil cycle.

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