Tenam Puente

Tenam Puente is an archaeological site of the Maya culture located in the Balum Canan valley, in the municipality of La Trinitaria, 12 kilometers south of Comitán, Chiapas, in Mexico [1]. The site represents the transition from the Classic Period to the Postclassic [1]. The strategic location of Tenam Puente allowed its inhabitants to have access to and exercise control over the route of the important commercial networks that linked the highlands of Chiapas and Guatemala with the central depression of Chiapas [1]. Tenam Puente was mentioned for the first time in the book Tribes and Temples, edited by Frans Blom and Oliver La Farge in 1928 [1]. Tenam Puente was built on large and spectacular platforms with monumental retaining walls [1]. The nuclear zone of the settlement is made up of a little more than 60 structures distributed in a territorial extension of approximately 30 hectares [1].