This park protects several pre-Columbian hypogea or underground temples dating from the 6th to 9th Centuries AD. Most of these have a spiral staircase to enter which delves about eight metres below the surface before opening out into a main chamber linking to several satellite chambers, each one for a single corpse. The decorations on the walls are in red, black and white geometric patterns, and would have been combined with statues and pottery, but there’s scant of that remaining – most of the hypogea were robbed before the park was trusted with their protection.

Written by  World Reviewer Staff.

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