Ake's Mayan ruins

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Sitio maya No. 129. Xlapak, Yucatán

Sitio ubicado entre Sayil y Labná en la ruta Puuc de Yucatán, es relativamente pequeño pero contenía edificios bellamente ornamentados.

Actualmente pueden visitarse 3 conjuntos, el primero con un palacio prácticamente completo con decoración a base de grecas y mascarones. en el segundo hay algunas habitaciones en pie con junquillos como ornamento. El tercero está muy dañado pero conserva un acceso en pie.

Yucatán, 2017

My modest, and first, attempt at a travel video. The video encompasses some footage from a 10 day trip to Yucatán full of Mayan Ruins, Cenotes, Fishing, and Exploring. [Sorry for the shaky parts, I tried my best]

Sites shown: Rio Lagartos, Valladolid, Zona Arqueologica Coba & Ake, Haceinda Sotuta de Peon, and Celestun.

Music:
Soledad y el Mar by Natalia Lafourcade
[Veracruzana, Mexican Native, and one very good musician]

Out and About: Ruinas de Aké

Just outside the town of Tixkokob are the Ruinas de Ake. There are people that say that this site is older than Chichen Itza...but nothing has been proven on that account that I know of. What is clear, this is a great location for first time pyramid tourists to check out an easy and manageable archeological site. Sit back and enjoy the video~

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Ruinas de Mayapán en el estado mexicano de Yucatán.

Explorando en solitario una de las importantes zonas arqueologicas construidas por los mayas en el sureste estado de Yucatán.

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Engravings from an old magazine showing the dilapidated state of the Maya ruins in Yucatan before the excavations began.
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1/3 Ek Balam Zona Arqueologica en Yucatan

Ek balam es uno de los Últimos sitios Arqueológicos descubiertos en la Península de Yucatán y es quizás una de las mas importantes ruinas mayas jamás encontradas.
Ek Balam ( El Jaguar negro o la estrella del tigre)se encuentra ubicado al norte de la ciudad colonial de Valladolid, a la mitad del camino entre Mérida y Cancún. Para llegar Tome la carretera Cancún- Mérida, salga en Valladolid y diríjase al norte en dirección de la ciudad de Tizimin. Desde Cancún o Mérida el viaje no toma más de dos horas y media. Ek Balam está compuesto por varios templos, dos palacios enormes y una gran pirámide en el centro de la ciudad.

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Ruinas de Aké

Ruinas de Aké formando parte del municipio de Tixkokob, en el corazón de la zona henequén
Colinda al norte con Cacalchen , al sur con Tacmek y al oeste con Ekmúl.

Aké es uno de los más importantes del norte de Yucatán y se conoce
ahora con el nombre de Ruinas de Aké por la hacienda de San Lorenzo
Aké que se erige sobre los antiguos vestigios mayas. El vocablo maya
Aké se refiere a un apellido y por tanto, también puede señalar pertenencia
a un linaje; en otro sentido, denomina a un tipo de planta (bejuco).

Tiene 382 habitantes. Ruinas de Aké está a 8 metros de altitud.

Dentro del casco lo que más llama la atención es una antigua capilla
erigida sobre una plataforma arqueológica donde se venera a la virgen de la Concepción.
Año con año los habitantes realizan diferentes peregrinaciones por lo que las tradiciones
y costumbres se mantienen vigentes.

Aké tiene gran variedad de atractivos; una hacienda que durante
años ha florecido gracias al cuidado de sus dueños, antiguas
leyendas entorno a la misma, añejas máquinas desfibradoras donde
aún se trabaja el Oro Verdeel Henequén
y un conjunto de ruinas y montículos de piedra,
vestigios arqueológicos del pasado esplendor del pueblo maya.


A un costado de la casa principal se pueden observar plataformas arqueológicas
poseedoras de un atractivo especial, entre estas el Edificio de las Columnas,
llamado así por sus pilastras y que se levanta frente a una explanada.
La construcción tiene una escalera casi monumental, arriba se conservan
33 pilastras de piedra en 3 hiladas, desde donde se obtiene una vista general del sitio.

The Kinich Kak Moo Mayan Pyramid Izamal Yucatan Drone

The Kinich Kak Moo The Kinich Kak Moo Mayan Pyramid Izamal Yucatan Drone

The Kinich Kak Moo pyramid is the most important, with a 200 by 200 meter base and a height is 34 meters. The building was dedicated to the Sun, a deity that came forth on a daily basis to collect its offerings, said to be seen in the form of a macaw of fire. To the southeast is another great pyramid called Itzamatul. The southwestern side of the main plaza is bordered by another pyramid known as Hun Pik Tok. The public space is closed by the Temple of the Kabul in the west.

Izamal (Spanish About this sound [isama'l] (help·info)) is a small city in the Mexican state of Yucatán, 72 km (about 40 miles) east of state capital Mérida, in southern Mexico.

Izamal was continuously occupied throughout most of Mesoamerican chronology; in 2000, the city's estimated population was 15,000 people. Izamal is known in Yucatán as the Yellow City (most of its buildings are painted yellow) and the City of Hills (that actually are the remains of ancient temple pyramids).
Izamal is an important archaeological site of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is probably the biggest city of the Northern Yucatec Plains, covering a minimal urban extension of 53 square kilometres (20 sq mi). Its monumental buildings exceed 1,000,000 cubic meters of constructive volume and at least two raised causeways, known by their Mayan term sacbeob, connect it with other important centers, Ruins of Ake, located 29 kilometres (18 mi) to the west and Kantunil, 18 kilometers to the south, evidencing the religious, political and economic power of this political unit over a territory of more than 5,000 square kilometres (1,900 sq mi) in extension. Izamal developed a particular constructive technique involving use of megalithic carved blocks, with defined architectonical characteristics like rounded corners, projected mouldings and thatched roofs at superstructures, which also appeared in other important urban centers within its hitherland, such as Ake, Uci and Dzilam. The city was founded during the Late Formative Period (750–200 BC) and was continuously occupied until the Spanish Conquest. The most important constructive activity stage spans between Protoclassic (200 BC – 200 AD) and Late Classic (600–800 AD). It was partially abandoned with the rise of Chichen Itza in the Terminal Classic (800–1000 A.D.) until the end of the Precolumbian era, when Izamal was considered a site of pilgrimages in the region, rivaled only by Chichen Itza. Its principal temples were sacred to the creator deity Itzamna and to the Sun god Kinich Ahau.


Pre-Columbian stucco head, 7 ft 8 in (2.3 m) high, as drawn by Catherwood
Five huge Pre-Columbian structures are still easily visible at Izamal (and two from some distance away in all directions). The first is a great pyramid to the Maya Sun god, Kinich Kak Moo (makaw of the solar fire face) with a base covering over 2 acres (8,000 m²) of ground and a volume of some 700,000 cubic meters. Atop this grand base is a pyramid of ten levels. To the south-east lies another great temple, called Itzamatul, and placed at the south of what was a main plaza, another huge building, called Ppap Hol Chak, was partially destroyed with the construction of a Franciscan temple during the 16th century. The south-west side of the plaza is partially limited by another pyramid, the Hun Pik Tok, and in the west lie the remains of the temple known as Kabul, where a great stucco mask still existed on one side as recently as the 1840s, and a drawing of it by Frederick Catherwood was published by John Lloyd Stephens. All these large man-made mounds probably were built up over several centuries and originally supported city palaces and temples. Other important residential buildings which have been restored and can be visited are Xtul (The Rabbit), Habuc and Chaltun Ha.

After more than a decade of archaeological work done by Mexican archaeologists at Izamal, over 163 archaeologically important structures have been found there, and thousands of residential structures at surrounding communities have been located.

Spanish Colonial era[edit]
After the Spanish conquest of Yucatán in the 16th century a Spanish colonial city was founded atop the existing Maya one; however it was decided that it would take a prohibitively large amount of work to level these two huge structures and so the Spanish contented themselves with placing a small Christian temple atop the great pyramid and building a large Franciscan Monastery atop the acropolis. It was named after San Antonio de Padua. Completed in 1561, the open atrium of the Monastery is still today second in size only to that at the Vatican. Most of the cut stone from the Pre-Columbian city was reused to build the Spanish churches, monastery, and surrounding buildings.

Izamal was the first chair of the Bishops of Yucatán before they were moved to Mérida. The fourth Bishop of Yucatán, Diego de Landa lived here.

Aké, Yucatán. Zona arqueológica.

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Entrando a la zona arqueologica de Mayapan, Yucatán Arqueología Maya 2014

Esta vez fue emocionante estar en esta zona arqueologica ya que es la primera vez que estuve visitandola.

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The Antiquarian Society Explore the Ruins of Ake Part2

The Antiquarian Society Explores an ancient Mayan temple and finds megaliths are everywhere. These enigmatic stones are very similar to the standing stones of the UK and Europe! Could they have been built by the same culture. Our guide Pech told us that the Main standing stone of the complex was the most important on the whole site. Pech also enjoyed Led Zepplin and magic substances found in the jungle.