4 Days of Minitour in Yucatán in a 3 Star Hotel | Merida | Mexico

Ek ‘Balam is located in the central-eastern part of Yucatan, about 190 km from Mérida and it is easy to reach the area, since the access is clearly signposted. The name of the ancient city, in the Yucatec Mayan language, literally translates into Spanish as “dark or black jaguar” (Barrera V. 1980: 1950) although the people of the Ek’Balam region who speak Mayan also interpret it as ” Lucero-Jaguar. ” When the Spanish arrived in the Yucatan Peninsula in 1517, Chichén Itzá was already abandoned, which means that while Europe lived in the Middle Ages, Chichen Itza had already created an even more precise calendar than the Gregorian one, its knowledge of Astronomy was much more advanced and they handled the concept of the number zero. Chichén Itzá differed from other Mayan cities by introducing the cult to the god Kukulcán, the feathered serpent.

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