SIM AGENCY Mexico.- Diego Prieto Hernández, director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), reported that so far 35,700 Mayan structures have been recorded and preserved in the sections of the Mayan train, in which they represent property properties such as foundations, albarradas, basements among others.

During his participation in the morning conference of the President of Mexico, Prieto Hernández explained that the priority project of the Mayan train will make tourists around the world aware that the legacy of the great Mayan culture is alive.

In the excavation phase, in section 4 which goes from Izamal to Cancun, there is an advance of 90.45%; in section 5 south, Playa del Carmen-Tulum, the progression is 33.63%. In the prospecting stage, in section 5, the progress is 100%; in Tranche 6 it is 92.21% and in Tranche 7, said increase is 65.88%.

Thus, in the supervision of the seven sections that make up the railway line, which cover approximately 1,500 kilometers, connecting five states in the south-east of the country, the INAH has registered, to date, more than 35,000 monuments in the area of ​​influence. , which she intervened, recorded and retrieved information on nearly 4 thousand 500, which are in the right-of-way; the rest were recorded, but did not intervene, as they are outside of it.

Alongside this work, in the southwest of the country, INAH is applying the Program for the Improvement of Archaeological Areas (Promeza), which will benefit 26 archaeological areas within the radius of influence of the Mayan Train, including 10 in Quintana Roo : El Meco, Paamul II, Cobá, Tulum, Muyil, Chacchoben, Ichkabal, Oxtankah, Kohunlich and Dzibanché-Kinichná.

The development of this initiative has recently led to the discovery of two limestone sculptures, one at Uxmal and the other at Oxkintok, sites of the Puuc Route in Yucatan, which present reliefs on either side and whose age is estimated at the Late Classic period (750 -900 AD).

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