North of Tenosique a road heads about 70km through the Reserva Ecológica Cascadas de Reforma, where the Río San Pedro forms four pretty waterfalls. There’s a swimming area in the natural pools here, along with restaurants and toilets. Major excavations at the site of Moral - Reforma in mid-2009 uncovered an amazing collection of stucco decoration, stelae and masks.

In several publications prior to 1992 the site has been referred to by various names: Reform II, Reforma, Moral, Morales-Morales Balancán even Acalán ruins. The abundance of trees moral (Maclura tinctoria) could inspire one of the most recurrent and Reform to be in the Ejido reform-Province names.

The Arq. Daniel Juarez in 1993 determined call Moral-Reforma site in order to avoid further confusion. Cultural Significance: site Moral-Reforma had a long occupation from the 300 a. BC to AD 1000, initially as a village-type settlement gradually gained importance as a regional center that controlled the traffic on the river San Pedro Martir, through which communication and the exchange of goods between establishing Guatemalan Peten Maya peoples and those settled in the Gulf of Mexico.

Broadly speaking, it has been characterized by a vigorous development of the classic Mayan art, documented in hieroglyphic inscriptions and monumental architecture. For the Late Classic, a major construction activity reflected in the configuration of the Plaza Oriente, dominated by buildings No. 2 and 14 registers; paired ceremonial buildings, complemented by a ball and two type buildings palace with courtyards, plus smooth stelae and altars and in some cases with inscriptions. From epigraphic texts inscribed on stelae of Moral-Reforma it has been possible to partially meet the dynastic history of the site, which includes political alliances with the manors of Calakmul and Palenque, to respectively 662 and 690 AD, and later to the 750 AD become head of a small independent province in the region of San Pedro Martir.

Services available in the reception and visitor registration, health, ramp for people with different abilities, parking and signage.

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

Tabasco INAH Center 01 (993) 3 52 10 33.

We recommend bringing hat, slip shoes and water for hydration. In season lluviasllevar waterproof and avoid climbing structures if the surface is wet -in this condition the rocks are slippery.

From Villahermosa you get to the archaeological site of Moral-Reforma, through Federal Highway 186 Villahermosa Tabasco Francisco Escárcega Campeche, After crossing the village of Chable, at kilometer 154 + 150 the junction Balancán-El is taken triumph, to a second junction which leads to Tenosique; State road this village La Cuchilla, shortly after you take a paved road to the right that leads to the archaeological site Moral-Reforma is crossed. It also can be reached by Tenosique, following the state road leading to the town of Province and the blade and connects with the road Entronque Villahermosa road Escárcega- Balancán-El Triunfo.