Examples of using Puuc in English and their translations into German
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The Mayan word Puuc means mountain range.
Puuc architecture is easily recognized.
Its architecture belongs to the"early puuc" style.
You are leaving the Puuc region to the capital of Yucatan, Merida.
Uxmal(right) and Labna(left) are two of the many archeological sites in the Ruta Puuc region.
The so-called Puuc Route is one of the most beautiful and interesting routes of Yucatan.
It is located in the westernmost area of the Puuc region, 70 km south of Merida in Yucatan.
The Puuc Route is located in the southwestern part of the Yucatan peninsula below Merida.
Today your journey will take you to the Puuc region, which you will reach in one and a half hours.
You leave the Puuc region towards Merida and from there you drive on the highway to Cancun to the Riviera Maya, where your beach hotel is located.
With an excellent geographic location it is the end of one tourist circuit, the Route of the Convents,and the beginning of another one, the Puuc Route.
Today you leave the Puuc region and drive along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico to Celestun.
Here you will find the Mayan sites of the classical period like Uxmal,the most important site in the Puuc region and smaller Mayan centers like Kabah, Sayil and Labna.
The largest site of the so-called Puuc route can be visited from Merida as a day trip, or on the way from Merida to Campeche.
A vast underground world which provided water and clay to ancient people as farback as 5,000 B.C. On this day tour of the Puuc Route, you will also see Maya decorations at the ruins of Sayil, Xlapac, and Labna.
The Puuc style is recognizable by its sophisticated architecture made up of clean lines, rounded walls, ornate stone frescoes with intricate patterns, rows of columns and high vaulted arches.
Passing several Mayan villages it takes about 90 minutes to the Puuc region, the only area in Yucatan with hills Puuc means hill in Maya.
The characteristics of the Puuc architecture are the thin squares of limestone veneer, decorated cornices, boot-shaped vault stones, rows of attached half columns, and upper facades heavily decorated with stone mosaics.
After visiting Campeche your journey takes you past several Mayan villages to the so-called Puuc region(Puuc means hill in Mayan) that shapes the countryside of the Yucatan Peninsula.
You can also go on a half-day tour to explore the Celestun National Park, one of the most important national parks in Mexico and home tomore than 300 different kinds of birds, visit the city of Merida, or the Mayan ruins along the Puuc Route like Kabah and Uxmal.