TULUM
The archaeological zone is located to 128 kilometers to the south of the city of Cancún, in the state of Quintana Roo. Number 128 is acceded by the federal highway.
tulum it received his name at the beginning of century, apparently, by the walls that surround it in three by their sides, since Tulum means in Mayan “Wall, fence or wall”.
It is considered, in addition, which its original name was Zama, that it means “Dawn”, which agrees with the geographic situation of the city, where is appraised, daily, the exit of the sun.
The pre-Hispanic city is constructed in front of on a cliff to the Caribbean Sea; their rest extend six kilometers throughout the coast. The center of the zone is protected by the wall and they form public-administrative, civic and religious buildings. The wall runs by the North, South sides and the west; whereas by the side this it limits with the sea. By outside the fortification the zones of room are concentrated.
With base in several investigations one knows that the occupation of Tulum happened in Delayed the Posclásico period (1200-1521 d.C.). Anyway, as in the case of other preHispanic cities, its origin can send to previous times, since the collected oldest data of the site is related to the finding of a small wake that takes carved the date corresponding to year 564 d.C. (Classic period).
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