Xcambó Archaeological Site in Yucatán

The Xcambó Archaeological Site is located about 50 minutes from the City of Merida. This was an important trading city that specialized in salt production that was exported throughout the Mayan Peninsula. The name of Xcambó comes from the Maya meaning Celestial Crocodile or Place where barter is carried out, for the history and the […]

Xcambó Timeline

The Xcambó Timeline can give us an idea of the time it was inhabited and the influence it received by other Mayan cities. Late Pre-classic Period (350 BCE – 250) On the northern coast of Yucatan and the rest of the peninsula, there were already numerous indications of settlements of various magnitudes and degrees of […]

Storage and production of salt in Xcambó

Xcambó controlled the production of at least two large salt areas such as the Salinas of Xtampú, located one km northeast of the site. There are archaeological and also ethnohistorical data that refer to the fact that these salt mines were still in production in the year 1605, and even today it continues to be […]

Xcambó Architecture

Xcambo architecture has old elements of the early Mayan style, it seems that there was a generalized taste for the early constructive features, which are always present combined with the subsequent architectural influences. Four of the postclassic structures were erected associated with two buildings in the Main Plaza: In one of these, two vaulted miniature […]