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Kohunlich could be a massive archaeologic website of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, placed on the Yucatán land regarding twenty five kilometre east of the Rio Bec region, and regarding sixty five kilometre west of Chetumal on route 186, and nine kilometre south of the road. The Spanish name doesn’t really derive from Mayan however from the English feather palm Ridge wherever feather palm grew.
The site covers regarding twenty one acres (85,000 m2), enclosed by dense sub-tropical rain forest, and it contains nearly two hundred mounds, that stay mostly unexcavated. The town was intricately planned and built, with raised platforms and pyramids, citadels, courtyards and plazas enclosed with palace platforms, all set intent on channel evacuation into a system of cisterns and a colossal reservoir to gather fresh water.
The site was settled by two hundred before Christ, however most of the structures were in-built the first Classic amount from regarding 250 to 600 AD. Several of them square measure still lined with thick vegetation and overgrown by trees. The town seems to own functioned as a regional center and stop on the trade routes through the southern Yucatán from urban center and Rio Bec space to the west, and therefore the cities on the east-coast and to the south, within the el Petén region of Central American country and neighbor Central American country.
The site is best famous for its Temple of the Masks, associate degree Early Classic pyramid whose central staircase is flanked by immense humanized stucco masks. The Temple was designed around five hundred A.D. And is one amongst the oldest structures at Kohunlich. Once 700 A.D., this temple was lined over with a Terminal Classic construction, that protected the masks and accounts for the marvelous state of their preservation these days. The sole standing remains of the later temple square measure some steps within the lower portion of the step.
The road approaches the positioning from the north and leads into a colossal central plaza ringed by pyramids and temple platforms. To the north there’s a vast, raised bastion, or citadel, with a palace complicated around a yard to the north-west. Additional east there’s the Temple of the Masks, in-built honor of the sungod.. Originally there have been eight carved masks flanking its central staircase; solely 5 stay, 3 having been pillaged.
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