The Maya ruins of Tenam Puente, 14km south of Comitán and 5km off the main road, cover a large area, and are easily reached by bus. A path leads up past the guard’s hut and into a meadow with a huge stone terrace. The site, uncovered by Frans Blom in 1925, marks a settlement which was at its peak from 600 to 900 AD and finally abandoned around 1200 AD. The most important group of ruins, the acropolis, has three ballcourts and a twenty-metre-high pyramid that affords magnificent views of the Comitán valley. To get to it, keep climbing the stone terraces until you reach the highest point.

Tenam tenamitl comes from the Nahuatl word meaning "fortress", "wall" or "defense". The dictionary Tojolabal - Spanish records the same word as "thin pot, jar". Meanwhile Franz Bloom Tenam mentions that the name is assigned to a group of ruins in the region Comitan preferably located at the top of the mountains. The second name corresponds to the former estate of El Puente, located in what is now the colony of Francisco Sarabia. Around the region you have several sites registered with Tenam prefix allocation corresponding farm or ranch, eg Tenam Tenam Rosario and Soledad.

Tenam Bridge is a place characterized by a temporality that transcends the collapse of most of the Maya cities of the Lowlands, even though it was a settlement of lower rank ; this position and hierarchy perhaps favored continuity. The settlement maintained trade relations with the surrounding region coming to trade goods with the Gulf of Mexico, the highlands of Guatemala and the Central Depression Chronology: 300-1200 d. C. Location main chronological: Late Classic 600 d. C., and early Early Postclassic 900-1200 d.

In August, visitors can watch the procession of the Virgin Mary Heart starting from the ejido Francisco Sarabia to the highest section of the Acropolis where the community participates with a Tojolabal heritage.

A movable feast that takes place on Sunday before August 22.

Hours: Monday to Sunday from 8:00 to 17:00 hours

Services available in the area: office access, parking, restrooms. Rest areas and a small interpretive room on the service module. Occasionally tours are offered.

Access Cost: $ 36 pesos.

Contact: Chiapas INAH Center 01 (961) 6 12 83 60.

Recommendations: Wear comfortable clothes, hat. Binoculars, possibility of flora and birds according to season visit. Water as there is no shop on site, the nearest is in the ejido. Mosquito repellent and Availability for hike and climb to the Acropolis. There ejido shuttle that runs from Comitan that leads to the archaeological site and agreement can pick them up after the visit.

To reach the site from Comitan, the Federal Panamerican Highway No. 190 is taken to Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, covering about 8 km., Then the deviation leading to the Ejido Francisco Sarabia (2 Kms) is., Southwest of the community is the central area of prehistoric settlement on the road to the Baths of Santa Rita Uninajab. By public transport you can reach the site by taking the van of the town of Comitan to the ejido of Francisco Sarabia. Visitors can apply to carriers that move to the entrance of the archaeological site. You can even request that pick back.