CAMPECHE. – Calakmul was the first place in Mexico to be named “Mixed Heritage of Humanity” since 2014 by UNESCO.
The Ancient Mayan City of Calakmul, Campeche, is a Cultural Asset registered in 2002, with an area of 3,000 hectares.
On July 21, 2014, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee determined to expand the status of Cultural Heritage of the pre-Hispanic site to also incorporate the exceptional natural attributes that frame it. This is how it earned the title of «Mixed Heritage of Humanity».
It is located five hours from the city of Campeche. With the jungle and the sound of nature in the background, you can see the remains of structures, ball courts and multiple stelae, which represent the ruins of a civilization.
Located in the center of the second largest expanse of tropical forests in America, second only to the Amazon rainforest in South America.
It is known as the Mayan jungle with very particular climatic and geological characteristics that differentiate it from the rest of the Mayan jungle.
As a whole, the Calakmul area preserves largely intact vestiges of the relatively rapid development of a splendid urban civilization, in a hostile tropical forest environment.
Calakmul also witnessed an unprecedented growth of an extraordinary civilization, which came to an abrupt end at the end of the classical period.
In addition, the archaeological sites in the area contain incomparable examples of Mayan monumental architecture, mostly belonging to the so-called Petén tradition in the core area and the Río Bec style in its northeast periphery.
