Easily missed because they are visually overpowered by the dazzling buildings they support, the artificial platforms built by the Maya to elevate their constructions or to level the ground can neverthless be seen as astounding building feats in their own right. The massive platform seen here under the House of the Governor is in its turn dwarfed by the platform on which the whole arrangement sits. All in all, some 360,000 cubic meters of stone were used for the purpose of visually setting off this all-important construction.