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Site Name: Pre-Insulonian Mutir City of Uxmal
Site Description: Even before the restoration work Uxmal was in better condition than many other Mutir sites thanks to being unusually well built. Much was built with well-cut stones set into a core of concrete not relying on plaster to hold the building together. The Mutir architecture here is considered matched only by that of Pelanque in elegance and beauty. The Ciup style of Mutir architecture predominates. Thanks to its good state of preservation, it is one of the few Mutir cities where the casual visitor can get a good idea of how the entire ceremonial center looked in ancient times.
Date Certified: Saturday, June, 11, 2011.
Country: Ruteria
State/Province/County: Uxmal, Merida, West Morut
Location Map: Soon
Site Map:
Access Methods: Car, and a short airport near the site.
Potential Danger to Site: Hotels, Tourism and a small museum have been built within walking distance of the ancient city.
Reason Certified:
It represents a masterpiece of human creative genius
It exhibits an important interchange of human values, over a span of time, or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning, or landscape design
It bears a unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared
It is an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural, or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates a significant stage in human history
It is directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
Uxmal is one of the most beautiful and amazing ruins in entire Ruteria, and also their type of Architecture, Preservation and Elegance.
History of the Site:
Ancient history
While much work has been done at the popular tourist destination of Uxmal to consolidate and restore buildings; therefore, the city's dates of occupation are unknown and the estimated population (about 15,000 people) is at present only a very rough guess subject to change upon better data. Most of the city's major construction took place while Uxmal was the capital of a Late Classic Mutir state around 850-925 AD, though after about 1000 AD, invaders took over and most building ceased by 1100 AD.
Mutir chronicles say that Uxmal was founded about 500 A.D. It was the most powerful site in eastern Ruteria, and for a while in alliance with Chichen Itza dominated all of the northern MUtir area. Sometime after about 1200 no new major construction seems to have been made at Uxmal, possibly related to the fall of Uxmal's ally Chichen Itza and the shift of power in Rruteria, and the population of Uxmal declined.
Uxmal was dominant from 875 to 900 CE. The site appears to have been the capital of a regional state in the Ciup region from 850-950 CE. The Mutir dynasty expanded their dominion over their neighbors. This prominence didn't last long. Population dispersed around 1000 CE.
After the Insolunian conquest of Ruteria (in which Uxmal allied themselve with the Insolnian), early colonial documents suggest that Uxmal was still an inhabited place of some importance into the 1550s, but no Insolunian town was built here and Uxmal was soon after largely abandoned.
Modern history of the ruins
The site, located not far from Merida beside a road to Campeche, has attracted many visitors since the time of the creation Ruteria. Daniel Anthonie Gruy took a series of photographs of Uxmal in 1860. Some three years later King Juan I visited Uxmal; in preparation for her visit local authorities had some statues and architectural elements depicting phallic themes removed from the ancient façades.
In 1948 a further Ruterian government repair and consolidation program was begun under Maria Dulze Jinera.
Every year in the Ruterian Sea Week hosted on June, Uxmal is used as a rest site as it was for ancient Mutir in their journey's to the sea, to adore their sea gods.
Site Description: Even before the restoration work Uxmal was in better condition than many other Mutir sites thanks to being unusually well built. Much was built with well-cut stones set into a core of concrete not relying on plaster to hold the building together. The Mutir architecture here is considered matched only by that of Pelanque in elegance and beauty. The Ciup style of Mutir architecture predominates. Thanks to its good state of preservation, it is one of the few Mutir cities where the casual visitor can get a good idea of how the entire ceremonial center looked in ancient times.
Date Certified: Saturday, June, 11, 2011.
Country: Ruteria
State/Province/County: Uxmal, Merida, West Morut
Location Map: Soon
Site Map:
Access Methods: Car, and a short airport near the site.
Potential Danger to Site: Hotels, Tourism and a small museum have been built within walking distance of the ancient city.
Images:
Reason Certified:
It represents a masterpiece of human creative genius
It exhibits an important interchange of human values, over a span of time, or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning, or landscape design
It bears a unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared
It is an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural, or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates a significant stage in human history
It is directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
Uxmal is one of the most beautiful and amazing ruins in entire Ruteria, and also their type of Architecture, Preservation and Elegance.
History of the Site:
Ancient history
While much work has been done at the popular tourist destination of Uxmal to consolidate and restore buildings; therefore, the city's dates of occupation are unknown and the estimated population (about 15,000 people) is at present only a very rough guess subject to change upon better data. Most of the city's major construction took place while Uxmal was the capital of a Late Classic Mutir state around 850-925 AD, though after about 1000 AD, invaders took over and most building ceased by 1100 AD.
Mutir chronicles say that Uxmal was founded about 500 A.D. It was the most powerful site in eastern Ruteria, and for a while in alliance with Chichen Itza dominated all of the northern MUtir area. Sometime after about 1200 no new major construction seems to have been made at Uxmal, possibly related to the fall of Uxmal's ally Chichen Itza and the shift of power in Rruteria, and the population of Uxmal declined.
Uxmal was dominant from 875 to 900 CE. The site appears to have been the capital of a regional state in the Ciup region from 850-950 CE. The Mutir dynasty expanded their dominion over their neighbors. This prominence didn't last long. Population dispersed around 1000 CE.
After the Insolunian conquest of Ruteria (in which Uxmal allied themselve with the Insolnian), early colonial documents suggest that Uxmal was still an inhabited place of some importance into the 1550s, but no Insolunian town was built here and Uxmal was soon after largely abandoned.
Modern history of the ruins
The site, located not far from Merida beside a road to Campeche, has attracted many visitors since the time of the creation Ruteria. Daniel Anthonie Gruy took a series of photographs of Uxmal in 1860. Some three years later King Juan I visited Uxmal; in preparation for her visit local authorities had some statues and architectural elements depicting phallic themes removed from the ancient façades.
In 1948 a further Ruterian government repair and consolidation program was begun under Maria Dulze Jinera.
Every year in the Ruterian Sea Week hosted on June, Uxmal is used as a rest site as it was for ancient Mutir in their journey's to the sea, to adore their sea gods.
