This name comes from Uxmal that means built three times, allegedly making reference to its age and its different construction periods. Uxmal turned into the dominant city of the region and excelled as a religious, political, economical and cultural center of the nothern maya zone and was the most important political capital of the southwest of the Yucatán Península. It was a walled city that had beatiful buidings decorated with mosaics, with PUUC style in its architecture which is the most important in the zone, but we can also find other several styles such as chines, tolteca and some Mexica and Olmeca characteristics with teotihuacan features in some masks that represent the God Chaac.
Among its most important and beautiful buildings we can find La Pirámide del Adivino, its temples, El Cuadrángulo de las Monjas, El juego de Pelota, La Casa de las Tortugas, El Palacio del Gobrnador, La Gran Pirámide, La Plataforma de los Jaguares, La Casa de las Palomas y Templo Sur and some others. It is still unknown the motives why its inhabitants emigrated to other political and economical centers. Prevailing forgotten in the jungle for centuries.
Location:
Located at 80 Km from Mérida, through the Highway 261, old highway to Campeche.
History:
Dating from 800 B.C. to 900 A.C.
Services:
Il has parking service and washrooms. It is open to the public from monday to sunday from 8 hrs to 17 hrs.
