We are an ecotourism mexican Enterprise that wants to show travelers the Mayan Culture all along its history, its ecosystems, its gastronomy and its communities. Our objective is that our visitors get to know and feel the mayan cultural inheritance through life experiences that will leave them a wonderful memory.
With our project we are trying that the communities can also have a source of incomes, that can allow youngsters to train themselves and have a working alternative; as well as trying to make their activity a professional one. In this way, we are fostering different forms of life through a low impact tourism that helps to keep their natural ecosystems.
It is due to the above mentioned that our groups are just of 10 persons, and we also work in policies that reduce plastic consumption and the generation of residues at the communities that we visit. Latitud Maya is open to offer customized experiences to those groups that want to know more of our culture, as well as giving complementary information in those topics in which you are interested.

KOHUNLICH

 

The antique name of the site is unknown; in english it was named Cohume Ridge, “Slope covered by corozos”. Victor Segavia, the archaeologist that discovered and explored it, transcribed Cohume Ridge for Kohumrich; and after this name was transformed in Kohunlich.

CALAKMUL

 

The archaeological zone of Calakmul qualified as Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2002, is the second natural bigger lung of the american continent and the bigger tropical jungle of Mexico, it has 723 hectares, where 38 mayan architectural centers are located.

EL HORMIGUERO

 

Archaeological Area El Hormiguero Campeche, the city that has the entrance to the mayan underworld and a cultural richness. Its name comes from a camp of the chicle-extractors that existed near the archaeological remains at the decade of the 30, of the past century.

CHICANNA

 

The name of the site can be translated as “The house of the serpent´s mouth: chi “mouth” can, “serpent” and ná, “house”. The site is a good example of the fusion of two important mayan architectural styles

BECAN

 

Becan is a word of the yucatecan mayan language that means “Ravin or canyon formed by water, such a meaning points out clearly an important characteristic of the place. Becán is one of the few precolombian settlements in which still nowadays you can appreciate a defensive pit and a wall.

 HONDO RIVER

 

Through its water more than five centuries ago, aproximately, the devastating plunder of precious woods was carried out; and also in its own time the smuggling of weapons was done with which the mayans fought against the mexican government during the castes´ war.

BALAMKU

Balamku means in Mayan “jaguar temple” (balam, jaguar; kú, temple), due to the image of one of these animals embodied in the frieze of Substructure l-A. The area is made up of three architectural groups: the South, the Central and the North and the South Group.

DIZBANCHE – KINICHNA

Originally named Tzi¬banche, “wood writing”, from a wooden lintel located in Structure VII that contains a hieroglyphic inscription, is a first-order site, it is from the early classic, that Dzibanche becomes a great city and the development of the great constructive projects that can be seen today begins.

ICHKABAL

(Coming soon it is not yet open to the public)

The archaeological site of Xcabal, discovered more than a decade ago in the south of Quintana Roo, in the municipality of Bacalar, was one of the most important Mayan eras, even the structures and bases of its pyramids, are more than 40 meters high and 200 meters at the pyramid base, which will exceed the size of those of Chichen Itza & Uxmal , in Yucatan, so it would be of historical importance to the culture of that state.