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The Route of The Rivers

Les noms des biens figurent dans la langue dans laquelle les Etats parties les ont soumis.

Guatemala (Amérique latine et Caraïbes)

Date de soumission : 23/09/2002
Critères:
Catégorie : Mixte
Soumission préparée par :
Ministry of Culture and Sports
Coordonnées
The Route of the Rivers takes the whole area west of the department of the Petén in Guatemala.
Ref.: 1755

Description

The area contains numerous Mayan cities built next to navigable rivers that it allowed them to control the trade and the regional economy. The area shares several characteristics like its strategic location, megalithic and hieroglyphic flight of steps, flat panels to the lateral of the flight of steps, the uses of pillars, the erection of stelaes associated to altars, roadways and in some cities the employment of defensive walls and moats. On the other hand, the sculpted monuments of the area describe the topic of the war, where the staring are the rulers.