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Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque
| Site number: | 411 |
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| Type of site: | Cultural | |
| Date: | 500-700 AD | |
| Date of Inscription: | 1987 | |
| Location: | North America, Mexico, State of Chiapas, Municipality of Palenque | |
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| Description: | Palenque is a first-rate example of a Mayan sanctuary dating from the classical period; it experiences its peak between A.D. 500 and 700, when it saw its influence reach all through the basin of the Usumacinta River. The buildings of the city hold a delicate elegance and craftsmanship, their Mayan mythological themes lightly sculpted into exterior reliefs, all reveal this civilization’s creative genius. --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. | |
| Palenque is a Maya archeological site near the Usumacinta River in the Mexican state of Chiapas, located at 17°29′0″N, 92°2′59″W about 130 km south of Ciudad del Carmen (see map). It is a medium-sized site, much smaller than such huge sites as Tikal or Copán, but it contains some of the finest architecture, sculpture, roof comb and bas-relief carvings the Maya produced. --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. | ||
| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/411 | |
| Source2: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/411/video | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page. | |