AMLO and Sheinbaum inaugurate the Jaguar Park in QR

Tulum, QRPresident Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his successor, Claudia Sheinbaum, inaugurated the Jaguar Park and the Museum of the Eastern Coast, a project associated with the Mayan Train that combines environmental protection, the recovery of historical heritage and vindication of the Mayan civilization. “This museum is one of the most beautiful. When you visit it, you will see how beautiful it is, one of the best museums in Mexico due to the work of archaeologists, the restorers,” said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Gallery: Jaguar Park and Museum of the Eastern Coast inaugurated

Continuing his tour of Quintana Roo, the president recalled the obstacles faced in building the Mayan Train: “Do you know how many injunctions the conservatives filed to stop us from building the Mayan Train? But they found that the people do want it, and when the people wanted it, they get stuck, so as not to say anything else. The conservatives.”

The Jaguar Park, which includes the Museum of the Eastern Coast, is an area that covers a thousand hectares in total, in which 2.7 billion pesos were invested. It is a work that, he said, shows that the Maya Train Project is something more than a railroad because it also involves environmental protection and the recovery and appreciation of the greatness of the Maya civilization, said the director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Diego Prieto, to whom the president made a public recognition.

Prieto added: “It is not just a train, it is the vindication of the southeast of Mexico, the Yucatan peninsula, justice and balanced growth, equality and the recovery of Historical Memory. We inaugurated the largest museum in the Tren Maya system.”

Eastern coast of the Caribbean coast of Mexico of the Mesoamerican Mayan world, unique cultural region, architectural styles, economy, interurban network.”

For his part, the Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development, Roman Meyer, stated that in parallel with the Mayan train and the archaeological recovery, it was a challenge to organize the territory.

Prieto explained that the museum has an area of ​​1,200 square meters with 300 original pieces and 50 reproductions, intended to vindicate Mayan greatness. It is an extensive civilizing trunk, one of the largest and the most continuous and extensive in the Mesoamerican region, spanning three millennia, with antecedents of 13 millennia.