Witness of the Dawn and Cultural Decline - Tulum, Mexico
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denben
N 20° 12.795 W 087° 25.857
16Q E 454981 N 2235138
This information panel is located in Tulum, the site of a pre-Columbian Mayan fortified town serving as a major port for Cobá, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.
Waymark Code: WMY4H3
Location: Quintana Roo, Mexico
Date Posted: 04/19/2018
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"The ruins of Tulum are situated on 12-meter (39 ft) tall cliffs along the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula on the Caribbean Sea in Mexico. Tulum was one of the last cities built and inhabited by the Maya; it was at its height between the 13th and 15th centuries and managed to survive about 70 years after the Spanish began occupying Mexico. Old World diseases brought by the Spanish settlers appear to have resulted in very high fatalities, disrupting the society and eventually causing the city to be abandoned. One of the best-preserved coastal Maya sites, Tulum is today a popular site for tourists." (
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The information panel says:
"Tulum was contempory to Chichen Itza and Mayapan and when the latter two states fell, it consolidated its position, paving the way for its greatest period of expansion. Its decline began at the time Hispanic navigators arrived on its shores and islands; from then on, a certain cultural cohesion was attained that has prevailed until the present time.
Major experiential period were:
*Pre-Hispanic life and conquest (400 - 1200 - 1542)
*Forced indigenous labor and piracy (1542 - 1847)
*The Caste War (1847 - 1900)
*Archaeology and tourism (1900 - to the present)