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Chakan Bacab and El Caracol
Two newly discovered Maya cities that for centuries were hidden in the highland jungles of Quintana Roo state on the Mexican Caribbean will be open to the public in 2005. Chakan Bacab and El Caracol, located some 60 kilometers (35 miles) west of the city of Chetumal, near the border with Guatemala and Belize, rival the ruins of Chichen Itza and Uxmal.
The state government will invest US 3.2 million over 20 years to restore the Maya structures of the cities of Chakan Bacab and El Caracol. Opening these ruins to the public will allow authorities to establish an archaeological corridor to the areas of Kohunlich and Dzibanchen in the neighboring state of Campeche.
Chakan Bacab, Mexico - Chakan Bacab, which means "rubber tree" in the Maya language, is one of the most recent archaeological finds in the center of the Yucatan Peninsula, and dates back to the Late Preclassic Period between 400-700 A.D. This Maya city was lost in the highland jungles for around 500 years but nonetheless kept its splendor since many of its constructions are great temples, squares and ball-game courts that make its importance evident. The ruins in Chakan Bacab have at least 12 large structures, as well as statues, monuments and buildings as significant as Kohunlich and that could compete with the beauty and splendor of the great Chichen Itza.
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