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Tulúm: the Castillo, drawn by Catherwood
Castillo at Tulúm (Stephens and Catherwood 1843)
The
Castillo, the principal structure at Tulúm, has a platform 7.5 meters
high built over an earlier colonnaded palace. Tulúm was a center of the
Late Postclassic Maya on the east coast of Quintana Roo, flourishing
from AD 1250-1520.
This 1841 drawing of the western side by Frederick Catherwood, published in John L. Stephen's Incidents of Travel in Yucatán
(1843), is the first accurate portrayal of the structure. The opposite,
eastern side of the Castillo overlooks a steep cliff on the Caribbean
shoreline.
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