...is identified as 29-year-old Mexican who locals are now calling 'Lady Chichen Itza'

• Mexican media outlets identified Abigail Villalobos as the woman who was seen walking up the steps of Pyramid of Kukulcán in Tinum, Yucatán, on Sunday
• The 29-year-old woman was held for 30 minutes at the Tinum municipal police station and released after she paid a $257 fine
• Villalobos was captured on camera climbing up the Mayan temple and dancing on the steps before a security guard managed to get her to come back down
• Angry visitors shouted for Villalobos to be incarcerated and doused her with water as she was escorted out of the Mayan ruins 

The woman who climbed the steps of an ancient Mayan temple, enraging a crowd, and going viral online, has been identified by a local news outlet as Abigail Villalobos, 29, of Mexico.

The Tinum municipal police department would not confirm or deny the woman's identity to DailyMail.com. 

The woman, identified as Villalobos by Noticias ZMG and Imagen TV, shocked visitors Sunday by walking up the steps of Castillo – or Pyramid of Kukulcán – in the Yucatán city of Tinum.

Villalobos then walked through one of the Chichen Itza temple's four terraces at the front of the steps and walks back out while an enraged group of people shouted obscenities at her from down below as a security guard trekked up the pyramid to get her to walk down.

She has since been dubbed by locals as 'Lady Chichen Itza.'

In the video, which has been viewed more than four million times, a tourist identified by Mexican media outlets as Abigail Villalobos appears to be asked to come down from the top of the temple by a man who has climbed some of the steps. At the bottom, the crowd gather round the 29-year-old and they can be seen shouting as she tries to get past

As she descended the 91 steps, Villalobos danced upon one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and appeared to pose for photos and was met by an angry crowd with some chanting 'jail, jail, jail' and 'lock her up.'

Villalobos was then escorted by a guard while several of her companions trailed behind her before some of the upset visitors blocked her path. An elderly woman briefly stopped Villalobos and pulled her hair and while other tourists dosed her with water. 

Archaeologists discovered in 2015 that the Temple of Kukulkan, which was built by the Maya around 1,000 years ago to worship a snake god, has a huge cenote, or sinkhole, beneath it. They believe it may have been built on top of the cavern deliberately as it may have had deep religious significance to the ancient civilization

Villalobos was taken to the Tinum municipal police station and held for half an hour but was released after paying a fine of 5,000 pesos - about $257.

The pyramid was built between the 8th and 12th centuries AD and served as the temple of the Kukulcan god. The ancient ruin’s substructure is said to have been built a couple of centuries earlier for the same purpose.

The Mesoamerican pyramid is 79 feet high and an additional 20 feet for the temple at the top. Each of the temple’s four sides feature 91 steps.

The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) issued a statement a few hours after the video was posted on social media, noting that the monument had not been damaged. 

A woman identified by the Mexican press as Abigail Villalobos was seen walking up a Mayan pyramid before she was taken into custody and fined

A security guard walked almost halfway up the pyramid as part of the attempt to get the woman to walk back down before authorities arrested her and fined her before she was released 

The Maya who built Chichen Itza came to dominate the Yucatan Peninsula in southeast Mexico

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