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Tulum: The wall of the Caribbean

 

Tulum is considered one of the representative places of Quintana Roo. Could it be because of the impressive view it offers to the Caribbean Sea with its incredible turquoise tones? Or is it maybe because of the vestiges of the enigmatic Mayan culture that lie in it? Located south of the city of Cancun, it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and acquired the excellence of Magic Town in 2015.

 

According to information from INAH, in the sixteenth century Tulum had the name of Zama , which means ‘morning’ or ‘sunrise’; but through the years it received its current name, which interprets as ‘wall’ or ‘palisade’.

 

 

This magical town is part of a big pre-Hispanic settlement to which the site of Tancah additionally belongs, positioned three kilometers to the north. Archaeological studies indicate that it was one of many main Mayan cities between the 13th and 14th centuries.

 

The archaeological zone

 

One of many major points of interest of Tulum is the archaeological zone, which receives more than one million vacationers each year. The place is positioned at kilometer 230 of the Chetumal-Cancun federal highway and may be simply accessed by federal highway 370.

 

 

If you happen to travel to Cancun, practically all of the hotels supply the tour to know Tulum and different sights of the area. One of many benefits of those tours is the help of the guides, who supply an in depth clarification of the history of the site.

 

The walled enclosure has 25 essential structures, between temples and palaces; all have been explored and restored by INAH researchers. In addition, it has among the greatest preserved mural paintings in the Mayan world.

 

 

The buildings have the model known as Costa Oriental, attribute of the submit-classical architecture of that region. There are miniature temples, shrines within shrines (small buildings within a bigger one), buildings with intentionally collapsed walls, as well as palaces with flat roofs and halls that changed the vaulted roofs attribute of older Mayan buildings.

 

 

A lot of the constructions of the archaeological zone are guarded in their entrances by the illustration of a descending god, which appears to have been the protective deity of the city. This god is a illustration of the God of Corn and is thought to be related to the birth and rebirth of humans as a corn plant, a metaphor which will have been current in the idea of the city itself, which looks towards the place of sunrise.

 

According to the investigations carried out to date, it is believed that upon the arrival of the Spaniards, the Tulum-Tancah space might have had a inhabitants of as much as 15,000 people and could have been inhabited for approximately 750 years.

 

 

The primary hallmark of Tulum is the wall that delimits the principle complicated on its north, south and west sides, while the eastern sector faces the Caribbean Sea; It has 5 entrances and watchtowers.

 

 

 

The site is presided over by El Forgedillo, the highest basement, which preserves a temple with three entrances decorated with serpentine columns and zoomorphic masks at the corners. In entrance, there's a platform for dances, and to the southwest is the Temple of the Initial Series.

 

To the north is the Temple of the Descending God, with a small basement on which a building decorated with the image of that deity, the primary iconographic component of the site, was built. Going through this set is the main road.

 

One of many buildings with larger transcendence is the Temple of the Frescoes, whose mural paintings painting a series of supernatural beings residing in the underworld; These constitute one of the crucial essential testimonies of prehispanic Mayan mural painting.

 

While walking the road, you may see the palaces known as the House of Columns and the House of the Halach Uinik.

 

In the northeast access, the Casa del Cenote documents the importance that the Mayans gave to the aquatic cult linked to the cenotes, and near there's the Temple of the God of the Wind, named for its circular base, associated to Kukulcán.

Web: https://www.islandlifemexico.com/tulum-visitors-guide/

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