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Palenque

History

Palenque is a Maya site near the Usumacinta River in Chiapas, which is a southern state of Mexico. The structures were meant to respond to the attacks of the city. The king B'aakal governed Palenque in the year 431. This a complex of interconnected buildings that where built and modified for four hundred years. It is located in the central zone and it's name is for the conjuction of yards and the tower of the four bodies. See more...

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Practical Information

 

Transportation: Take a bus to Tuxtla Gutierrez or an airplane both are good and cheap options. From there you have to travel 3 hours and 29 minutes 259 kilometers total. See more...

 
The Ruins

 
Palenque Temple of the inscriptions This temple located in the upper part of a pyramid in the orient side. Has this name because of three tabloids of rock with geroglific inscripcions. This inscriptions detail the history of the regent dynasty of the city. Theirs also inscriptions that detail the death of Pacal el Grande and his travel to the underworld. Where he takes the identity of the two twin in the Popol Vuh that defeated the lords of the underworld and reached inmortality. They also describe the ancestors of pacal and the celestial band. See more...

 

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