COVER STORY // Rescue of Maya sites will detonate Yucatan’s cultural and social development: officials

Yucatan’s governor and INAH sign $35M-peso agreement to promote conservation of the state’s Maya heritage…

KULUBÁ, Yucatan — The rescue of archaeological sites not only promotes cultural progress, but also the tourist and social development of Yucatan, said the general director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Diego Prieto Hernández, after announcing plans to restore “Chichén Itzá viejo”, Izamal, Dzibilchaltún, Uxmal and Kulubá, with an investment of $35 million pesos ($1.9 million USD).

At the foot of the Mascarones Palace in the pre-Hispanic city of Kulubá, in the eastern part of the territory, more than 200 kilometers from Mérida, Gov. Rolando Zapata Bello and the general director of INAH, Diego Prieto Hernández, signed an agreement for the Government of the State of Yucatan to promote research, restoration and conservation of the state’s cultural heritage through the Harvesting of Archaeological Sites program.

“It is a rescue of our identity and our past that becomes present and future. Each one of the 17 archaeological zones open to the public in the state — Kulubá will be number 18 — are spaces of history but equally of identity. Spaces where our social memory can be traced back to the great civilization that gave us origin: the great Mayan culture,” said Zapata Bello, at Kulubá’s main building.

He stressed that the rescue of Kulubá goes far beyond the 221 hectares that comprise the polygon of this pre-Hispanic area, and represents in the same way our identity and our past that becomes present and future.

He added that historical sites are spaces where knowledge about the Maya can be increased and, in this way, improve the way we know ourselves and our land. “Kulubá is a site of enormous importance and interest,” he said.

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