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Caracol is the most important Ancient City

          

May 3, 2011

muyil 300x225 Muyil Mayan Ruins

muyil map, muyil chunyaxché

Muyil Chunyaxché and modern names are used to refer to the archaeological site from two large lagoon is located outside the region, both within the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve. Muyil 22 is the most important pre-Hispanic settlements in Sian Ka’an, and is located 12 km from the Caribbean coast, about 25 km south of Tulum Pueblo on Highway 307

Architecturally, the site is divided into two areas: Muyil Muyil and B. The first of these is open to the public and extends for 38 hectares of jungle. It ‘was a densely populated settlement was pre-Hispanic, a large number of civil and religious, and residential construction, only some of which have been discovered by archaeologists. Given the proximity of the city to ruin Muyil lagoon is believed to have been the first stop impotatant Hispanic Maya maritime trade route along the coast. There is evidence that the use of natural input and Maya beaches up and down the coast, the beaches of the ruins of Tulum, Tankah, Akumal, Xaac, Paamul, Chakalal input and Xel-Ha and Xcaret (which are all Mayan ruins of related). Landlocked lagoons and Muyil Chunyaxché connected by a narrow channel of water that will be dredged to allow access to the ancient Maya Despite the Caribbean Sea and Laguna Campechen entrance to Boca Paila.

The secondary sector Muyil is located 2 km northeast of the first and the core is composed of small structures.

The information obtained to date indicates that the Mayan groups began to settle here around 300 BC C. It is the culmination of centuries before the ancient cities of Chichen Itza Maya, Uxmal and Tulum. It is believed that the site was used by the Maya to the first decades of the 16th century, when Francisco de Montejo, led the Spanish conquest of Yucatan. According to documents from the colonial era, the Spanish camp was first established in 1527 by Montejo, near the port and then Maya Xel-ha, and called Salamanca Xala.

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