To navigate the water of Usumacinta river a plentiful of México and the most larg in-central america, in direction to Yaxchilán. Yaxchilán is the prototype of a lost city in the rainforest, In a central position of the rainforest Lacandona  the origen is 2000 years ago. When a group of men was  establish a village  that with the centuries it was a powerfull and beauty city near to the river usumacinta, and have the splendor in 550-900 A.C. in the corresponding clasic period late. The surface in the city is vast, but the visit in these days is to the big square, the big acropolis, the little acropolis and the acropolis south.

To the big square we can enter by the building 19 known as “el laberinto”, beacuse the complicated distribution of this roomsin various buildings you can see lintels about the dynastic history of the city.

The building 12 and 22 are principal. You can feel the emotion when you are climbing the hill, to connect this square with the big acropolis, the principal building the number 33, the most splendid in the city, The hieroglyphic stairs, the lintel is, the sculpture decapitate of the bird jaguar, inside them are the characteristic more outstanding. Was during this ruling when yaxchilan attain the physiognomy and consolidate the hegemony.

A Lacandona leyend says about when the head of the brid-jaguar come to his space the world will be devastated by the jaguares celestials.