Prehispanic City and National Park of Palenque.
YAXCHILÁN
bonampak Prehispanic city, headquarters of one of the greatest Classic Mayan Governors: Pakal
The most preserved and important mural paintings known in the Maya classic period
Cultural Heritage, Palenque is located in the middle of the jungle. It was the capital of the kingdom of Lakam-há. The abundance of archeological pieces, architecture, texts, and many others evidences, have made Palenque an essential place for the investigators to decipher the Maya writings and the dynastic cosmological stories. It is also a landmark because its architectural quality and its originality in their constructions. The most outstanding buildings are the Palace and the Temple of the Inscriptions with the tomb of Pakal. The Palenque museum possesses one of the best collections of Maya Art in the World.
Bonampak is a ceremonial center established in the heart of the jungle and its fame began during the government of Chaan Muan which ascended to the throne of Bonampak in 743 a.C., and it stayed captured in its stelas, lintels and painting murals that are still conserved. From the ensemble, the most outstanding buildings are the Great Plaza and the Acropolis. The murals of the temple of the paintings narrate the wars, dynastic histories and celebrations.
Located at 8 km from the city of Palenque.
An adventure through the river towards a lost city in the jungle In the middle of a splendid scenario of the ever green jungles, Yaxchilan was the seat of the warrior kings like Bird-Jaguar and Shield-Jaguar. The development of Yaxchilán occurs between the years 35 and 810 a.C. The surface of the city is very extensive. The outstanding buildings are the Great Plaza, the Great Acropolis and the South Acropolis. The quality of its patent sculpture in stelas and lintel is exceptional. Located 173 km from the city of Palenque.
LAGARTERO
CHINKULTIC
Lagartero is a paradise that combines the natural beauty with the archaeological interest
On limestone hills and in the middle of tree important water stores —El Cenote Azul, the Lagunas Chanujabab and Tepancuapan—, were rose the four principal nucleuses that form this maya site, where the inhabitants adore the divinity of aquatics and solar Gods. The called Acropolis stands out because it crowns one of the hills which is formed by five structures.
Tributary from the Alto Grijalva, the river Lagartero produces a great quantity of see-through ponds and small cascades. Between the water bodies remain the traces of a Maya city, where the inhabitants take advantages of the aquatic environment to create canals, using them for defense and watering.
IZAPA
TENAM PUENTE The highest Acropolis in Mesoamerica
Toniná is a sacred space constituted by an artificial mountain of seven platforms, raised above a calcareous hill that dominates an extended valley. Toniná lived its glorious moments between the finals of the VI century, and it was a military potency as it is shown in many representations of prisoners in stone and stucco work. Its most important governor was Tzots Choj, “Battiger”. In Toniná it was written, in the 909 year, the last inscription of the Maya from the classic age. It counts with a splendid Museum of Site. Located at 10 km from the City of Ocosingo.
Located 68 km from the city of Comitán de Dominguez.
Located at 42 km from the City of Comitán de Domínguez.
Located 156 km from the city of Palenque.
Toniná
The best place to contemplate from the heights the Montebello Lakes zone
A Mayan Acrópolis in the middle of the woods charged of bromelias It is located above a series of limestone hills, at approximately 1600-1700 m of altitude, in the southern border area from the Maya zone. The principal time of occupation stands for the classic periods and the early posclassic (approximately between 300 and 1200 year from our age). Its strategic position, in the rout that communicates the los Altos de Chiapas and Guatemala, permitted to have access to important routs of commercialized systems, as it is proved by the presence of objects that arrived form long distances like cups of alabaster, sea shells and metals. Located 13 km from the city of Comitán de Domínguez.
The situation and planning of this ceremonial center is full of astronomic references, until a point that many Archeologists establish that Izapa played a key part in the construction of the Mesoamerican Calendars. Its same orientation above an edge lightly deviated from the geographic north and its alienation with the Tacaná volcano have concluded that their best structures and pyramids for an astronomic observation agree with the sunset of the solstice of winter at the hemispheric north. Its early growth, before than the Teotihuacán and the great city Mayas convert it in a very important site to knowledge the history of Mesoamerica. Located at 12 km from the city of Tapachula de Córdova y Ordóñez.
ARCHEOLOGY
Tabasco
iglesia vieja A site full of enigmas where the Pacific watches over
Veracruz
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Oaxaca
It is one of the largest archeological sites of the coast and its constructions are megalithic, with an antique of approximately 1800 years, of a possible culture called Mixe-zoque. The area is formed by different sectors such as principal plaza, the altar of the four faces, and the altar of the Sapodrilo and the Ceremonial center. This last one is located at the highest part of the hill, with a surface of more than 300 m2.
The path to Cosmos
Located at 6 km from the city of Tonalá.
cHIAPA DE CORZO Replubic of Guatemala The Oldest Capital in the Center of Chiapas Archeological foundings have permitted to relate this region with further ones like the Olmeca zone or the highlands of Guatemala. It provides the founding of the stela in 1961 is written the oldest date known as Mesoamérica (36 A.C.) which is preserved at the Regional Museum of Chiapas in Tuxtla Gutierrez. Located at 17 km east from the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
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Pakal receives the crown from his mother Sak-Kuk. (Oval tablet, Palace of Palenque)