The archaeological area of Kohunlich is in the municipality of Othón P. Blanco, the most southern in the state of Quintana Roo.
It was built in an area of low lomerios whose height is 100 mts.; it is located in a corozal (Orbignya cohune), with characteristic palm of the south of Quintana Roo and Belize. Some nutritious and industrial resources can be obtained and that with some frequency he/she associates to pre hispanic contexts (as Altún there is and Lamanai, to mention some); besides the corozo, in the environment  of the place some forest species can be recognized as mahogany, cedar, and jabin that subsist jointly with trees like pepper, copal, sapota, chacá, chechén, ramón and others. However, the agricultural activity and the immoderate pruning that characterize to this region have produced big huamil areas, secondary vegetation of very recent origin, as well as of fernery, to the interior of which some endemic varieties have been recognized

Inside this varied lush environment , and being welcomed to the protection that you/they are offered inside you limit them of the place, he/she inhabits an enormous variety of animals and insects, among those that can be mentioned to the cereque, deer, tapir (or danta), tigrillo, raccoon, coati, tiacuache, tepezcuincle, armadillo, squirrel, mount dog, fox, zaraguato, parakeet, sparrow hawk, aguililla, toucan, bird carpenter, guardabarranco, owl, bat and several types of snakes. Most of these animals stays in the areas enmontadas and, to exception of the birds, difficultly he/she can turns them I jag of the visit area.

The name Kohunlich comes from English "cohoon ridge" which was the name of an old lumber camp located in the area around 1920-30.

Highlights of the site include the Temple of the Masks, a large structure ornamented originally with eight large stucco masks (of which five are only conserved) and considered one of the most complete samples of Mayan iconography of it's time (500-600 AD). The symbolic message of these masks is very complex and there are numerous interpretations -- see it yourself and come to your own conclusions.

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