Structure 44 is a pyramid located on the west side of the Central Plaza. It is high, making it one of the tallest structures at Tamarindito. The upper part of the structure has been badly damaged by looters. Hieroglyphic Stairway 2 forms the first five steps of this structure, the rest of the steps are less wide and contain no sculpted text. The entire stairway rises up the east side of the structure to the summit shrine, which possessed three east-facing doorways. Each of these doorways measured just under wide and opened onto a single room measuring . The walls of the shrine were thick and were fashioned from finely worked stone. The tomb of king Chan Balam was found under the temple.