Yaxuna

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“First house”, is a calm Mayan city that offers sites of interest for the adventurous tourist who likes to have contact with nature; besides having archaeological remains and the longest sacbé of the Mayan area, it has lodgings in typical cabins, as well as attractions like the ceremony of the melipona bees and its traditional fiestas. Crafts are elaborated with three techniques: wood carving, embroidery by hand and by machine.

The cenote Lol-Ha is located here, with stone steps that allow access to its mouth.
You can visit Monday to Friday, it is 25 km from Chichen Itzá and 103 km from Cobá.

History

The recent archaeological explorations began to show 2 important moments of the occupation of this site: in some substructures burial chambers have been discovered, its antiquity dates of the 5th century b.C. these are contemporaries to those of Oxkintok. In Early classic period or lower Preclassic, the monolithic blocks were used for construction purposes, but it is in the conclusion of the Classic period , when Yaxuná had its maximum blossoming.

Place denied to the itzáes, so they had to remain in Chichén; its sculptures have some ceremonial meanings to the architectonic spaces and thus, connects this city with the sites of the Puuc style, mainly with Kabah: the designs carved in stones of the main plaza in which "House of the Reina" rises, resembles the same element to of Codz Pop in Kabah, just like the use in the walls of the typical junquillos with Puuc knot fastening.

The landscape that can be contemplated from the top of the hill known las "Casa Verde" (Green house); elevates the visitor to trips of long-haul and an intensive agriculture who had to be the support for numerous mayan towns in the peninsular north. Besides the buildings of this enormous Acropolis, other structures, like the Ball-Game, and great architectonic sets are being studied by archaeologists to offer new information of the antique history of Yaxuná.

Location

It is located 25 km from Chichen Itzá and 103 km from Cobá.

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