Chakalal
Chakalal is a small Mayan ruin site on the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in the state of Quintana Roo , Mexico .
location
The former fishing village ( caleta ) Chakalal is located on a small bay in the Caribbean Sea opposite the island of Cozumel about 25 kilometers (driving distance) south of Playa del Carmen or about 10 kilometers north of the Mayan ruins of Xel Há . The CF307 passes Chakalal about 500 meters away. The well-known Maya site of Tulum is about 50 kilometers to the south-west.
Ruin site
The small ruin site actually only consists of a ground floor - i. H. not elevated by a pyramidal substructure - building in the early Puuc style, which architecturally could have been a temple as well as a 'palace'. The lower part of the building, which is covered with layers of lime plaster both inside and out, is completely decorated without any decoration; the upper part juts out slightly and is delimited by two horizontal cornices. The building has only a single, almost windowless room, covered with a cantilever vault , whose lighting and ventilation - as in almost all buildings of the Mesoamerican cultures - take place exclusively through the door. Inside the building there are sparse remains of colored paintings, which would be rather unusual for a palace building, but cannot be entirely ruled out either (cf. Chacmultún ).
Dating
The almost level construction and the completely unadorned exterior design of the building make an early dating (around 500 AD) likely - it would be one of the oldest preserved buildings in the Puuc style . The paintings inside the building may be later additions.
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Coordinates: 20 ° 30 ′ N , 87 ° 14 ′ W