Uaymil is a

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located on the

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of northern

Campeche Campeche (; yua, Kaampech ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Campeche ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Campeche), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. Located in southeast Mexico, it is bordered by ...

. The settlement of Uaymil occupies a small

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approximately 2.5 kilometers from the coast and 25 km north of

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. The site has been

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investigated by Rafael Cobos, now of the

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(UADY), who documented 15 structures, 8 of which were situated around a plaza containing an

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(Cobos 2001). A number of additional

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s and

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were also identified (Cobos et al. 2005). Ceramic data recovered during

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indicate that Uaymil was predominantly a

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site.

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, and

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data suggest that Uaymil had economic ties with both

Uxmal Uxmal (Yucatec Maya: ''Óoxmáal'' ) is an ancient Maya city of the classical period located in present-day Mexico. It is considered one of the most important archaeological sites of Maya culture, along with Palenque, Chichen Itza and Calakmul i ...

and Chichén Itzá (Inurreta and Cobos 2003), but largely functioned as a

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directly connected to, and dependent on, Uxmal (Cobos 2004).

References

*Cobos P., Rafael (2001
''Classic Maya Seaports: Uaymil, North Campeche Coast''. Report submitted to the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies (FAMSI).
*Cobos P., Rafael (2004) Entre la costa y el interior: Reconocimiento de una región del occidente de Yucatán. En ''XVII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2003'', edited by J.P. Laporte, B. Arroyo, H. Escobedo and H. Mejía, pp. 61–66. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala. *Cobos P., Rafael, Lilia Fernández Souza, and Nancy Peniche May (2005) Las columnatas de Uaymil: su función durante el Clásico Terminal." In ''Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya 13'', Vol. I, pp. 245–252. Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Campeche. *Inurreta Díaz, Armando, and Rafael Cobos (2003) El Intercambio Marítimo Durante el Clásico Terminal: Uaymil en la Costa Occidental de Yucatán. In ''XVI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala'', Vol. 2, edited by

Juan Pedro Laporte Juan Pedro Laporte Molina (7 August 1945 – 22 January 2010)Arroyo 2010. was a prominent Guatemalan archaeologist best known for his work on the ancient Maya civilization.Roesch 2010. He studied in the United States at the University of Arizona, i ...

, Bárbara Arroyo, Héctor L. Escobedo and Héctor E. Mejía, pp. 1023–1029. Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Asociación Tikal. Ciudad de Guatemala. Maya sites in Campeche Former populated places in Mexico Mayan chiefdoms of the Yucatán Peninsula Islands of Campeche Flora and fauna protection areas of Mexico Protected areas of Campeche {{mesoamerica-stub