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Zona Arqueológica Xel Há

Manuel Antonio Ay, Mexico

Zona Arqueológica Xel Há

The National Institute of Anthropology and History (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, INAH) is a Mexican federal government bureau established in 1939 to guarantee the research, preservation, protection, and promotion of the prehistoric, archaeological, anthropological, histori

cal, and paleontological heritage of Mexico. Its creation has played a key role in preserving Mexican cultural heritage. Its current national headquarters are housed in the Palace of the Marqués del Apartado in Mexico City. INAH and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL) are tasked with cataloging and protecting monuments and buildings regarded as cultural patrimony. INAH is entrusted with 'archaeological' (pre-Hispanic and paleontological) and 'historical' (post-Conquest 16th to 19th centuries) structures, zones and remnants, while INBAL is entrusted with 'artistic' buildings and monuments (properties that are of significant aesthetic value as deemed by a commission). Worthy edifices are catalogued in the Registro Público de Monumentos y Zonas Arqueológicos e Históricos ("Public Register of Archeological and Historic Monuments and Zones"). Currently, the INAH carries...

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