Xpujil
Xpujil is an archeological site Maya. Xpujil name means tail of cat , in reference to local type of vegetation. The site had its period of maximum splendor from 500 to 750 after J.C and it entered declining about 1100.
Xpujil was redécouverte at the end of the years 1930. It counts 17 groups of constructions. Located on the road of Escárcega at Chetumal, the site is in the middle of a concentration of Maya sites promised with a tourist future some.
Obeying an owner of architectural establishment of dispersed type, the buildings of Xpujil are nothing any more but the skeletons of what was one day of splendid examples of the architecture of the type Rio Bec. They are covered with surfaces `flat tints' in Stuc, of which certain more raised decorations were also entirely in stucco. The Mosaic cut stone like the snake of profile , evoke the type of decoration which was then in vogue.
Xpujil constitutes an good example of style Rio Bec, where it is integrated, and this not only because of its geographical location, but on purely formal criteria.
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Related articles
- Maya Civilization
- Maya People
- List of the Maya sites
- Chichén Itzá
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- Maya civilization
- history of the Mayas
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