<< Our Photo Pages >> Aguateca - Ancient Village or Settlement in Guatemala
Submitted by john_op_stap on Thursday, 31 October 2013 Page Views: 2734
Multi-periodSite Name: Aguateca Alternative Name: K'inich WitzCountry: Guatemala
NOTE: This site is 2.324 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Sayaxche
Latitude: 16.395290N Longitude: 90.20463W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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john_op_stap visited on 29th Feb 2004 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 again, take a lancha boat from Sayaxche, for about 1 1/2 hour over the Petexbatun lake and the up then mangrove swamps, plenty of birdlife to see. Small site, few stuctures unearthed, but the trip there and the surroundings make up for that
Together with the nearby Dos Pilas the twin capital to the short lived Petexbatun kingdom, the city was a main pawn in the endgame between Tikal and Calakmul on the eve of the Classical Era.
The sudden invasion left the densely populated city as one of the best preserved in the Maya world.
Some more info here and my full picset here.
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