Yaxhà

In 2002, the site whose name means green water was in partial restoration: showpiece of the project of “cultural triangle” of Nakum - Naranjo-Yaxha developed by the government of the Guatemala, helped in that by the Germany one speaks about `national monument'. It is the chronicler Villagutierre de Sotomayor who it first mentioned the place in the Spanish sources in 1618. In 1904, it is Teobert Maler, a soldier and German architect who traced his way until Yaxhà since Tikal, it is him which would have given its current name to the “lagoon of Yaxha” - a lake which borders directemnt the site the lagoons are numerous in this area of the Petén, and served without any Maya doubt with approvisonnner the fresh water.

one knows today q' a queen of Yaxha would have married a sovereign of Najanro “smoking batab”. Moreover, the Stèle 8 of Najanro names the site of Yaxha.* dynastic chalk-linings of Yaxha and Najanro was thus plain in the history. The visit of the site begin with the “Place It, then “the acropolis is” - these monuments are really impressive by the massive ground earthworks which support them. The steles were mutilated by it as of the prehispanic time.

the visit continues along a well marked out path, a kind of avenue bordered of small parallel pyramids, some restored, others still covered of their vegetable cover, in preoccupations with a safeguarding of the forest environment.

one arrives finally, after having crossed several places in an architectural complex with the “Maler group” of the name of his discoverer. Certain pyramids were high there on a platform in restoration currently, decorated with geometrical reasons. Top of the pyramid of “the acropolis is”, one sees the lagoon which extends, with in its center an island, which shelters the post-traditional site of Topoxté.

To the traditional occupation of Yaxhà, then forsaken, thus later a new site - in an architecture corresponded more marked by Mexico central and built by populations which however knew the site of Yaxhà.

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  • Maya civilization
  • history of the Mayas

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