Culubá

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Location of Culubá in the northeastern Yucatán

Culubá is a small Mayan ruins on the Yucatán Peninsula in the state of Yucatán , just under 32 kilometers east of Tizimín . The earliest description dates from 1940, more detailed information and discussion of the appearance of the Puuc style only from 1979. The importance of Culubá lies in the number of standing buildings, which is unusually large for the region, and the stylistic relationships with distant areas such as Chichén Itzá , Puuc and Chenes , which are still difficult to explain. In 2000 the site was mapped under the direction of Alfredo Barrera Rubio and individual excavations and restorations were carried out.

Group B

Rear of the building with a Puuc-like facade
The building with a Chenes-like facade
The Chenes-like entrance

The six-room building stands on a platform, the back of which is in excellent condition, with a facade design that combines many elements of the Puuc style, albeit in a form that can be found in the late Uxmal style as well as in Chichén Itzá. The cranked pillars of the tripartite base are just as characteristic of this as the cascades of Chaac masks, which, as in the Puuc style, are not related to distinctive architectural points such as entrances and corners, and the division of the upper wall surface into fields with different elements Decor. The south side of the building is badly damaged and no longer shows any recognizable facade details.

At right angles to the building described is another with five rooms, of which the entrance to the middle one is reminiscent of the snakehaw portals of the Chenes style . The three-part base with alternating smooth surfaces, groups of pillars and fields with slanted grids corresponds to the pillar style of the Puuc.

Group A

The building with the horseshoe-shaped facade decoration

The only well-preserved building in this group consists of five rooms in a row, with another room behind the larger central room. This floor plan is common in the Chenes style. The facade decor of the entire wall surfaces with cladding stones, which have an approximately horseshoe-shaped pattern, is atypical.

Group C

The group is formed by buildings on the sides of an almost square courtyard. Among other things, there are two buildings with a U-shaped outer wall and colonnades that are reminiscent of Ich Paa .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E. Wyllys Andrews IV .: The ruins of Culubán Northeastern Yucatán. In: Notes on Middle American Archeology and Ethnology 1 , 1941, pp. 11-14.
  2. ^ E. Wyllys Andrews V .: Some comments on Puuc architecture of the Northern Yucatan Peninsula . In: Lawrence Mills (Ed.) The Puuc, New Perspectives , Pella (Iowa) 1979. pp. 1-17.

Coordinates: 21 ° 6 '53 "  N , 87 ° 50' 46"  W.