El Palmar

Quiché de las Pailas, Mexico

El Palmar, originally called Wak Piit (Six Palanquins), is an archaeological site and ancient city of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization located within the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in southeast Campeche, Mexico. It was a large Maya city with an occupation established since the late Preclassic per

iod around 300 BC, it flourished during the early Classic period under the rule of a powerful dynasty that held several royal titles and had a royal court of high-level priests, officials, and scribes, which gave the city a great relevance in regional geopolitics. It reached its peak in the Late Classic period, during which the city developed an intense political activity, maintaining a vast network of alliances with distant sites, which made it one of the strongest political entities in southern Campeche. El Palmar is one of the largest archaeological sites in the region and extends over a vast area of 94 km², it consists of several archaeological complexes of monumental architecture with more than 10,000 identified structures, including plazas with large pyramidal bases, temples, palaces, 15 ball courts and numerous residential and ceremonial buildings. Each architectural complex had a...

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