Panorámica de Uxmal.
Panorámica de Uxmal.
It is located 90 km south of Merida, capital of the state of Yucatan in Mexico. Its buildings stand out for their size and decoration. Among them, as well as other cities in the area, there are built roads called sacbés.
Its buildings are typically of the Puuc style, with smooth low walls on which very ornate friezes open based on representations of the typical Mayan huts, which are represented by columns (representing the reeds with which the walls of huts were built ) and trapezoidal figures (representing the roofs of straw), linked snakes and, in many cases, two-headed, masks of the rain god, Chaac with their large noses that represent the storms, and snakes feathered with open jaws coming from the same human beings. In some cities, there are also influences of Nahua origin and the follow-up of the cult of Quetzalcoatl and Tlaloc that were integrated with the original foundations of the Puuc tradition.