Mundo Perdido was influenced by an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, that is 40 km northeast of the modern day city Mexico City.
 By AD 250300 its architectural style was influenced by the great metropolis of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico, including the use of the "talud-tablero" form. 
Teotihuacan , also written Teotihuacn (] ,  ), is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, located in the State of Mexico 40 km northeast of modern-day Mexico City, known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas. 
