{"id":215785,"date":"2023-06-20T23:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T21:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.visit-latin-america.com\/?p=215785"},"modified":"2024-12-18T15:28:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T13:28:31","slug":"ichkabal-the-mayan-jewel-to-open-to-the-public-in-august-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/ichkabal-the-mayan-jewel-to-open-to-the-public-in-august-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Ichkabal, the Mayan jewel, to open to the public in August 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mexico&#8217;s National Institute of Anthropology and History (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inah.gob.mx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INAH<\/a>) has announced that the Maya archaeological site of <em>Ichkabal<\/em>, located near the town of <em>Bacalar<\/em>, will be open to the public in August 2024. The site was discovered in the 1990s and has not been accessible to the public since then due to access difficulties and ongoing excavations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ichkabal<\/em> is one of the oldest and most important Mayan sites in the region, with pre-Hispanic buildings dating back at least 2,400 years. Among these structures, a massive pyramid over 30 metres high has been unearthed. The researchers point out that the size and age of these buildings indicate the major importance of Ichkabal for the Maya people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The archaeological discoveries made on the site between the Preclassic period and the collapse of the Maya civilisation (400 BC &#8211; 900 AD) demonstrate the city&#8217;s permanence over time, which is also an indicator of the site&#8217;s importance. In addition, the city is considered to be the origin of <em>the Kaanu&#8217;l (snake) dynasty<\/em>, one of the most powerful ruling groups of the Maya civilisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The archaeological zone of <em>Ichkabal<\/em>, which extended over 60 square kilometres and was linked to the site of Dzibanch\u00e9, is considered to have been a centre of power that linked the Maya jungle regions of <em>Chiapas<\/em> and <em>Campeche<\/em> to<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/test.visit-latin-america.com\/el-peten-jungle-has-covered-the-mayan-culture-in-guatemala\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Guatemalan Pet\u00e9n<\/a><\/em> and the eastern Yucatan peninsula until the 10th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opening of the site is part of the Mexican government&#8217;s initiative to improve and develop archaeological sites along the Maya Train route currently under construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d1461880.7521026866!2d-88.55862469968766!3d19.65666123807007!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x8f5bd198b53369a3%3A0xa87bb4f02976ea41!2sIchkabal%2C%2077903%20Q.R.%2C%20Mexique!5e1!3m2!1sfr!2sco!4v1687293202840!5m2!1sfr!2sco\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Access to <em>Ichkabal<\/em> will be via the Tren Maya station at <em>Bacalar<\/em>, some twenty kilometres away. Visitors will be able to fly to <em>Bacalar<\/em> from <em>Cancun<\/em> airport, pending <a href=\"https:\/\/test.visit-latin-america.com\/laeroport-de-tulum-devrait-etre-inaugure-avant-la-fin-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the opening of Tulum airport in 2024<\/a>, which is much closer to the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>INAH is currently working with the local community to reach an agreement on how the land surrounding the archaeological site will be used and how it will benefit from being opened up to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Se refuerzan los estudios y descubrimientos en Ichkabal, Quintana Roo gracias al Promeza\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AqdvUNTrub0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ichkabal, a jewel of the Maya civilization, will open to the public in August 2024, offering a unique journey into Mexico\u2019s history and heritage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16783],"tags":[8044,16780,8913,8914,8881,7549,8055,18603,8915,15959,8253,8916,8313,8062,8917,15963,7556,7558,8570,8220,8918,8919,8920,8921,8098,8922,8923,7571,19961,7578,20667,8924],"class_list":["post-215785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adventure","tag-aeroport-3","tag-ancienthistory","tag-archaeologicalexploration","tag-archaeology","tag-central-america","tag-discovery","tag-ecotourisme-en","tag-education","tag-exploration-2-2","tag-heritage","tag-historicsite","tag-history","tag-holidays","tag-ichkabal","tag-infrastructure-2-2","tag-latam-2","tag-latin-america","tag-latinamerica","tag-maya","tag-mayaarchaeology","tag-mayacivilization","tag-mayaculture","tag-mayaruins","tag-mexico-2","tag-north-america","tag-quimbaya","tag-tourism","tag-tourism-en","tag-travel","tag-travel-en","tag-worldheritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232022,"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215785\/revisions\/232022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}