Cacaxtla is the name of a Late Classic to EpiclassicAD 600-900 city in the Puebla Valley, Tlaxcala, Mexico.

Its height, Cacaxtla with a population of about 10,000 Olmeca Xicalanca people.

The site is known for wonderful Maya art manipulate murals, and architectural features such as a great platform mound, temples, a granary, and at the least nine defensive moats.

Important murals at Cacaxtla defines agriculture the Red Temple, symbolism Temple of Venus, and magic and religion.

Cacaxtla conquered Cholulu in the 7th century AD and became the capital of the valley, blending Nahua, Mixtecs and Chochopolocans, until they in turn were overthrown by the Toltecs.

The first archaeological survey was established in the 1940s by Pedro Armilla, salvage excavations to offset damage caused by looters was completed in the 1970s by the Puebla-Tlaxcala Regional Centre.