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Usumacinta River

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Usumacinta River

River, southeastern Mexico and northwestern Guatemala. Rising in northwestern Guatemala, it is formed by the confluence of the Salinas (or Chixoy) and Pasión rivers. It flows northwest and forms a section of the border between Guatemala and Mexico. It then empties into the Grijalva River in Mexico. With the Salinas River, it is about 600 mi (1,000 km) long.



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Four parallel masonry walls were found on the site located at the right bank of Usumacinta River, built with little thin bricks, as well as 2 small slabs placed vertically in front of the last wall, as a kind of stelae, made out of powdered shell mortar.
This is one of a set of carved limestone lintels from a building in the Maya city of Yaxchilan, on the Usumacinta river on the borders of modern Mexico and Guatemala.
This era represents the collapse of the Classic Maya, especially in the Peten and along the Usumacinta River.
 
 
 
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