A few kilometres east along Hwy-186 is the turn to Dzibanché and Kinichná; set in a drier area with sparse trees, these two neighbouring ruins are an interesting contrast to Kohunlich. Kinichná’s hulking pyramid, built in metre-high stones, layer upon layer by successive leaders, barely clears the trees, but you can look over the surrounding terrain (and spot a glimse of Dzibanché).

The original name of the settlement is unknown. Dzibanché is the name Thomas Gann (English military doctor and amateur archaeologist) assigned to the site during his visit in 1927. It is a Mayan word meaning "writing on wood" and refers to the carved wooden lintels placed in the openings of the Temple Building VI, which were removed to ensure their preservation.

Cultural Importance: The Dzibanché complex - Kinichná is in a transition zone between the northern lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula and the tropical rain forest of the Petén. The settlement covers an area of over 40 km2 and is made up of four groups of monumental architecture. Dzibanché or Home Group, Central Complex or Lamay Group, Tutil and Kinichná, groups that had specific functions, linked by sacbes or Mayan white roads In site architecture is possible to observe the Peten style, a style that was replaced in the mid-Classic (approx. 600 AD), for temples with facades decorated with paired pilasters, very high vaults double development with tension at the ends of narrow galleries and foundations with bodies decorated with slope - board, features belonging to a local style, associated with Kaan dynasty, established on the site during the Early Classic.

The existence of hieroglyphic texts engraved on the monuments of the staircase of the Temple of Captives and findings of sumptuous offerings in burial chambers, it shows that Dzibanché was involved in the conquest of various peoples, military conquests by various rulers of the Kaan family during more than two centuries. The sequence of occupation of Dzibanché has its beginnings in the Late Preclassic (300 BC) and the settlement population reached its climax in the Classic (400-700), whose population lasted until the late Postclassic (1500 AD). In the Main Group The main buildings are the temples I (or Temple Owl) and Temple II (or Temple of the Cormorants), located in the Plaza Xibalbá; Buildings and Captives and Tucanes, located on the Gann Square.

Services available in the area: services and health unit .

Hours: Monday to Sunday from 8:00 to 17:00 pm (last entry at 16:30 hrs).

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Up to the site is via Highway 186 (Chetumal-Escárcega) until you reach the junction at kilometer 215.5 driving on a paved road to the towns of San Pedro Morocoy and Peralta. Morocoy happening in the place known as "La Pista", leading to the diversion takes place seven kilometers to the east by a paved road that leads directly to the archaeological site.

There is no public transport from Chetumal to these sites, and they are too far off the highway to walk in. The easiest way to visit this area is to take a taxi tour from Xpujil. It’s also possible to start off from Chetumal by taking a combi to the town of Nicolás Bravo, then hiring a taxi from there, ending by flagging down a second-class bus back to Chetumal or onward to Xpuhil.