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Costa Maya is the closest port of access to many of the lesser-known Mayan ruins in the Yucatan including Chacchoben and Kohunlich. These sites are substantially less excavated than the better-known pyramids of Tulum and Coba to the north; Chichen Itza and Uxmal in Yucatan. The port sustained heavy damage due to Hurricane Dean in August 2007 ...
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Tren Maya (Yucatec Maya: Tsíimin K'áak', sometimes also Mayan Train or Maya Train) is a 1,554 km-long (966 mi) inter-city railway in Mexico that traverses the Yucatán Peninsula. Construction began in June 2020 and the Campeche–Cancún section began operation on December 15, 2023, with the rest of the railway opening in subsequent stages ...
Workers build a Maya Train track near Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on March 10. When complete, the train will wind around Mexico's southern Yucatán Peninsula. (Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press)
The latest burial discovery took place during work on the construction of a hotel near the major Maya ruins of Palenque in Chiapas state, once home to one of the ancient civilization's largest and ...
On 13 August 2018, he announced the complete outline. The route of the new route of the Mayan Train put the Chichén Itzá station on the route that would connect with Mérida, Yucatán. [1] It is believed that this will be one of the busiest stations on the Tren Maya, because it will serve many tourists visiting Chichen Itza. [2] [3]
The peoples and cultures which comprised the Maya civilization spanned more than 2,500 years of Mesoamerican history, in the Maya Region of southern Mesoamerica, which incorporates the present-day nations of Guatemala and Belize, much of Honduras and El Salvador, and the southeastern states of Mexico from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec eastwards, including the entire Yucatán Peninsula.
Mexico will shorten the 1,525-km (948-mile) route for a proposed "Mayan Train" designed to link tourist hot spots and spur development on the Yucatan Peninsula, an official said on Tuesday, in a ...