Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal
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How it came to be
Uxmal is a Maya city at the heart of the Puuc hills, about 62 km south of Mérida, the capital of Yucatán in Mexico. Most of its buildings date from about 700 to 1000. An inscription on the ballcourt says it was dedicated in 901 by the ruler Chan Chak K'ak'nal Ajaw.
The buildings have low, smooth walls, richly carved friezes and masks of the rain god Chaac, a manner named the Puuc style after the region. The Governor's Palace covers more than 1,200 square metres and has the longest façades in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The Pyramid of the Magician rises in five levels with an oval plan, unusual for a Maya pyramid.
The inhabitants left after the 10th century, but Uxmal remained a place of pilgrimage until the Spanish conquest. The Mexican government began its first protection project in 1927. Uxmal was inscribed in 1996.
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