Kohunlich Archaeological Site
\nCultural heritage of the people of Quintana Roo
\nCultural heritage of the Nation<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Entrance Sign at Kohunlich<\/em><\/p>\n SOURCE:\u00a0 Entrance Sign at Kohunlich (Kohunlich, Quintana Roo, M\u00e9xico); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 February 2012.<\/p>\n Details about the\u00c2\u00a0area\u00c2\u00a0are provided on one of the descriptive signs in the site (reproduced here\u00c2\u00a0with spelling and grammatical errors on the original):<\/p>\n The site is of a city built in the early VIth century A.D, and abandoned in the XIIth or XIIIth century A.D .\u00a0 Its original name is now lost to us since “Kohunlich”, which apparently comes from the English “Cohoon ridge” (Cohoon being a type of tropical palm), is a relatively modern name .\u00a0 Its architecture resembles the R\u00ed\u00ado Bec style, to the South of Campeche, and the Pet\u00e9n style, to the North of Guatemala and Belize .\u00a0 This shows the close ties and importance Kohunlich would have had with the other areas of Mayan culture .\u00a0 During its days of grandeur, the site looked very different from how we see it now, since all the buildings would have been stuccoed and painted predominantely in red .\u00a0 Some were also decorated with stuccoed figures and geometric designs .\u00a0 It boasted a complex drainage system which diverted rain water to an artificial reservoir or “aguada” .\u00a0 The constructions that can be visited served for different purposes, these being mainly residential, administrative and religious .\u00a0 They constitute only a part of the site, since the rest was made up of worker and peasant quarters, who supplied the foodstuffs and manufactured the various shell and flint artifacts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Cohune Palm (Orbignya cobune)<\/em><\/p>\n SOURCE:\u00a0 Cohune Palm (Orbignya cobune<\/em>) (Kohunlich, Quintana Roo, M\u00e9xico); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 February 2012.<\/p>\n Fruits of the Cohune Palm<\/em><\/p>\n SOURCE:\u00a0 Fruits of the Cohune Palm (Kohunlich, Quintana Roo, M\u00e9xico); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 February 2012.<\/p>\n Turtle Carved from the\u00c2\u00a0Nut of the Cohune Palm<\/em><\/p>\n SOURCE:\u00a0 Turtle Carved from the Nut of the Cohune Palm (Kohunlich, Quintana Roo, M\u00e9xico); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 09 February 2012.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kohunlich is an ancient Mayan city in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo .\u00a0 It is located in southeastern Mexico on the Yucat\u00ed\u00a1n peninsula, close to the borders of Belize and Guatemala .\u00a0 The entrance sign states: Kohunlich Archaeological Site … Continue reading ![\"Entrance](\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Kohunlich.jpg\" "\\"Entrance")
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