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	Rio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rio is the most commonly used as the nickname of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
		Rio de Janeiro, a major city and a state in Brazil
		Rio, West Virginia, a village in Hampshire County
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rio (278 words)

	Rio Bec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rio Bec temple pyramids are located in the central Maya lowlands.
		The temple-pyramids are characterized by a unique architectural style that began to appear during the seventh century A.D. and continued into the early twelfth century A.D. The temple-pyramids consist of a range-type building with typically two nonfunctional solid masonry towers on both ends of the range-type building [1].
		Despite their nonfunctional components, the Río Bec towers hold the typical decorations of a pyramid and its upper temple and at first glance are taken as functional pyramids.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rio_Bec (296 words)

	Rio Bec -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Río Bec is a sizable site of the (additional info and facts about Pre-Columbian) Pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in what is now southern (additional info and facts about Campeche state) Campeche state, (A Republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810) Mexico.
		The temple-pyramids are characterized by a unique architectural style that began to appear during the seventh century A.D. and continued into the early twelfth century A.D. The temple-pyramids consist of a range-type building with typically two nonfunctional solid masonry towers on both ends of the range-type building.
		Despite their nonfunctional components, the Río Bec towers hold the typical decorations of a ((stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases) pyramid and its upper temple and at first glance are taken as functional pyramids.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Ri/Rio_Bec.htm (362 words)

	Visit Cancun - Your Complete Vacation Guide to Cancun and the Riviera Maya
		The Río Bec Route has one of the largest concentrations of Mayan ruins spanning the states of Quintana Roo and Campeche yet only a small portion have been cleared.
		Rió Bec is famous for its towers adorned with roof combs resembling latticework, its doorways carved to look like monster mouths, underground passageways that lead to temples atop the pyramids and false narrow staircases lining the front of its towers and pyramids.
		The remainder of the Río Bec ruins beginning with Xpujhil are another 55 Km west of the Valley of the Masks.
	www.visitcancun.com /mayan_ruins_Rio_Bec.htm (419 words)

	Other Research at FAMSI - Stan Freer
		Chart 16: Rim Percentages for Periods at Río Bec
		Chart 19: Periods at Río Bec based upon total numbers of ceramics
		Chart 20: Periods at Río Bec based upon ceramic percentages
	www.famsi.org /research/freer/section10.htm (164 words)

	Calakmul Biosphere Region/Planeta.com
		Rio Bec is technically part of an ejido called 20th of November, so we had to "check in" with its community before going to the site.
		When we walked into Rio Bec and didn't come out for over seven hours, the men who came bicycling in to find us were equipped with a refrigerated liter of Pepsi.
		The Rio Bec style architecture is most prevalent, although heavy influences of other regional styles are visible.
	www.planeta.com /planeta/97/0597calakmul.html (2480 words)

	Rio Bec Dreams - Intimate Hotel, Calakmul, Becan
		If your archaelogical vacation includes a visit to Calakmul or the Calakmul Biosphere, then Rio Bec Dreams is the ideal place to start your exploration.
		Rio Bec Dreams is in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, an area of 6 million acres of protected jungle.
		Rio Bec Dreams is minutes away from Balamku, Becan, Chicanna and Xpuhil and only an hour from Calakmul.
	www.riobecdreams.com (154 words)

	AM_becan
		The sprawling Becan ruin of the Rio Bec Maya culture in south-central Yucatan was a favorite of ours.
		The Rio Bec style features "Palaces" with flanking towers and with solid stone "temples"; on top of the pyramids.
		Finding three stucco monkey masks was interesting, as there were few other representational sculptures discovered in the Rio Bec area.
	www.homestead.com /anneanddavek2/AM_becan.html (264 words)

	Chicanna, Campeche archaelogical sites, México
		The Chen style may be noted in the richly decorated zoomorphic facades, while its Río Bec counterpart characterizes the towers flanking elongated, low buildings.
		Ceramics found here lead experts to believe that this is one of the oldest buildings in Chicanná and the entire Río Bec regions.
		Structure I, a fine example of Río Bec stylearchitecture, lies to the west, and is an elongatedbuilding flanked by two towers with a temple-like appearance.
	www.mayanroutes.com /chicanna.html (434 words)

	Becán
		Historians often read the history of the Río Bec region as one, for at its zenith, the divisions between the individual large cities may have been hard to define.
		But this said, it is undoubtedly true that Becán formed one of the most important urban centres of this civilisation and may have acted at one time as an administrative hub.
		In addition to a dramatic rise in population, a completely unique architectural style was adopted and we see it at Becán in the form of monster mask doorways and false towers, imitating the Petén pyramids.
	www.geocities.com /atlantis01mx/yuc_pen_south/becan.htm (998 words)

	Campeche Maya Adventure Mexico, Ruins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although the region had already been visited years before by the Austrian Teobert Maler, it was Perigny who realized that the ancient architecture of southeastern Campeche was different from that which existed in the Petén region in Guatemala and to the north on the limestone plain of the Yucatán.
		From the on, the area lying between the Mexican states of Campeche and Quintana Roo was known as Río Boque, Río Bec or Río del Roble.
		It seems the cities of the Río Bec region were abandoned around the middle of the 14th century, although some peasants continued to leave offerings at the structures which were gradually engulfed by the forest.
	www.mexicoweb.com /travel/zcamruni.html (614 words)

	Xpuhil Archaeological Site
		A definite stopover for anyone interested in Maya architecture and culture, the small site of Xpuhil is located right in town on Highway 186 between Chetumal and Escarcega in the state of Campeche.
		A prime example of the Rio Bec style of Maya architecture, Xpuhil was discovered and explored by the Carnegie Expedition in 1938.
		Structure 1 conjures up impressions of absolute magnificence and is built on a wide platform with rounded corners, false towers and simulated upper temples on each of the three towers.
	mayavision.com /Xuphil.html (320 words)

	Xpuhil
		Xpuhil is part of the group of ruins that comprise the Rio Bec area.
		The interesting thing about the Rio Bec area is that the area is very old -- occupied around 600 BC.
		The Rio Bec is known for the the extravagant carvings on the buildings, false staircase, tall towers and "monster" faces and incl
	www.mayanbeachgarden.com /Xpuhil.html (269 words)

	Kohunlich
		The city apparently rose to prominence in the Early Classic when there were important ties to the cultures of northern Belize; this has been deduced from the style of the god masks.
		We may assume that there were also important trade and cultural links between the two, because the final demise of Kohunlich occurred more or less in synchronisation with the larger empire.
		In addition, on the south and east sides of the platform are stairs leading nowhere, another Río Bec trait.
	www.geocities.com /atlantis01mx/yuc_pen_south/kohunlich.htm (957 words)

	Palenque: Temple of the Inscriptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the Yucatan pennisula, south of the Puuc hills, a distinctive style exists known as the Rio Bec or Chenes style of Mayan architecture.
		In this style (sometimes treated as two separate styles) ornamentation is the dominant factor.
		Nowhere has ornamentation and simple delusion been taken to such extremes as at the sites of Rio Bec, Xupuhil and Becan.
	www.snowcrest.net /goehring/maya/riobec.htm (181 words)

	Balamku, Becan, Calakmul, Chicanna, Dzibilnocac, Edzna, Hochob, Xpujil, Mayan World: Archaeological Sites of Campeche, ...
		In Campeche, south of the Puuc hills, a distinctive style exists known as the Rio Bec or Chenes style of Maya architecture.
		The Bec River style features the use of twin towers with thatched temples on top, while the Chenes style is characterized by its profuse decoration of facades with fantastic stone masks.
		The Bec river style is known for the use of two towers with thatched or non-permanent buildings on top.
	www.mayan-world.com /ruinas/campeche-m.htm (1513 words)

	Rancho Encantado - Mayan Adventure Trips - the Ruta Maya
		Becan is considered the capital of the Rio Bec region and is currently undergoing extensive new excavation and restoration.
		Rio Bec is the most remote site on the Rancho's menu of adventures.
		We emerge at a large plaza where the primary temple of Rio Bec towers against the sky.
	www.encantado.com /adventrips.html (1149 words)

	Chetumal : Driving Tours \| Frommers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A few miles west of Bacalar and Chetumal begins an area of Maya settlement known to archaeologists as the Río Bec region.
		It's speculated that masks covered much of the facade of this building, which is built in the Río Bec style, with rounded corners, a false stairway, and a false temple on the top.
		By Structure 13 is a stele of a woman dating from A.D. She is thought to have been a ruler, which would be exceedingly unusual.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/chetumal/0949010025.html (4095 words)

	Maya Ruins Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rio Bec, Chenes, and Puuc Styles in Maya Architecture.
		Eaton, Jack D. "Chicanna: An Elite Center in the Rio Bec Region", in Preliminary Reports on Archaeological Investigations in the Rio Bec Area, Campeche, Mexico.
		Gendrop includes a section on Dzibilnocac in his chapter, "An Attempt to Classify the Known Zoomorphic Entrances." Especially interesting is Gendrops' reconstructive drawing of the false monster mouth doorway on the west side of Complex A-1.
	www.bonus.com /contour/Mayan_Ruins/http@@/mayaruins.com/yuc_bib.html (4540 words)

	Edzna, Campeche, Mexico Tour Or Travel Pictures And Photos
		Before the Puuc entered the area, however, Edzna was home to a thriving population who built the most extensive canal and irrigation network in the Maya region, supporting a population in the tens of thousands.
		Edzna lies in a wide, flat valley in the drainage of the Rio Champoton.
		The aqueducts stretched for many kilometers, the longest being the 12-kilometer canal from the ceremonial center south to the Rio Champoton.
	www.delange.org /Edzna2/Edzna2.htm (365 words)

	Becan: Río Bec version of Twin Pyramid Complex? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Rio Bec area of Southern Campeche and Quintana Roo, Mexico, is best known for the site of Xpuhil, in which steep towers imitate Tikal-like temples Not far from Xpuhil is the site of Becan.
		Each tower has radial symmetry Four pits, apparently too large to be postholes, mar the tops of the structures, but otherwise the tops are flat and broad.
		The central parts of the tower sides appear to be imitation stairways seen in the other Rio Bec towers although steps are not mentioned by Ruppert and Dennison.
	www.mayaruins.com /becan/m3_048a.html (218 words)

	Richard E.W. Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To study its origin, Adams has been to the Rio Bec region in the central Yucatan peninsula several times from 1969 to 1973.
		In an excavation from 1969 to 1971, Adams was a Field Director at the site of Becan; in 1972 and 1973, with the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Wisconsin, Madison he formed the Rio Bec Ecological Project.
		Adams believes that the Rio Bec region is the origin of Maya civilization.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/adams_richard.html (370 words)

	--Campeche-- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Within the Rio Bec region, where zoo-morphic porches outstand, in Hormiguero (Anthill), we can see an edifice divided in three sections.
		This facade consists of three main sections divided by two rounded corner towers with simulated stairways, typical of the Rio Bec style, although the temples which crown the stairs are atypical in the area because they are not false but are built over four pilasters forming a small inclosure.
		To the Northwest of Structure V, Structure VI is located and it has also two Rio Bec style towers.
	www.inah.gob.mx /inah_ing/zoar/htme/za00314.html (669 words)

	Athena Review 2,2: Puuc, Chenes, and Rio Bec styles of the Late Classic Maya
		The Puuc façades are closely related to the slightly earlier Chenes and Río Bec styles originating in lowland Maya regions to the south, especially in the use of masks and other symbolic motifs.
		The Río Bec style occurs in southeast Campeche and southwest Quintana Roo, in a transitional zone between Petén rain forests and scrub plains of Yucatán.
		One of the largest Río Bec sites is at Chicanná, 3 km SW of Becán, which includes five groups of mounds and buildings.
	www.athenapub.com /puuc.htm (1084 words)

	Mayan Ruins of Becan - in the Rio Bec area
		Mayan Ruins of Becan - in the Rio Bec area
		It was dug in the early decades of the city, and it appears to have been partially filled about 700 AD.
		At one time Becan was the dominant center of the Rio Bec area.
	www.mayanbeachgarden.com /Becan.html (236 words)

	History of the Maya
		Río Bec is the name given to a group of 17 small sites in a 50 sq km area Southeast of Xpuhil, that have developed a characteristic style of low buildings with doors made to look like huge serpent mouths and facades decorated with small masks.
		The evolution of temple architecture from open platforms where the ritual activities were visible to all towards elaborate palaces enclosing the ceremonial areas into courtyards hidden from the view of the common people reveals the growth of a powerful elite class isolated from the masses before the abrupt decline of the Mayas.
		Xpuhil (place of the cattails), flourished between 400 BC and 1100 AD in the Rio Bec area between Campeche and Quintana Roo in the Yucatan peninsula..
	berclo.net /page01/01en-hist-maya.html (3558 words)

	Becan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The largest of the 3 sites in the Rio Bec style in central southern Yucatan, Becan is a large Mayan site set into a group of hills about 80 miles west of Chetumal or 80 miles east of Escarcega on Highway 186.
		In Mayan, Becan means "Ravine formed by Water", and the city is ringed by a 2 kilometer long 50 foot wide protective moat, behind which are remains of a wall that was about 10' high.
		Since the site is already somewhat elevated it's probably more than 150 feet up in the air and allows commanding views of the surrounding area, including the towers of Xpuhil, more than five miles to the south.
	www.interl.net /~andreash/becan.htm (526 words)

	Costa Maya, Xcalak and Mahahual (Majahual) Visitors pages - History of Xcalak and Quintana Roo
		The agricultural skills evolved between 200 BC and 900 AD to the extend that workers could be made available to built the beautiful cities as we know them today.
		In the area around the Costa Maya the building styles called Rio Bec and Chennes are found.
		The Rio Bec and Chennes sites are one of the latest found in Mexico.
	www.xcalak.info /visit/uk/history-uk.shtml (1657 words)

	--Campeche-- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Within the architectonical area of Río Bec (Bec River), the archaeological site of Chicanná outstands by the beauty of its structure II.
		It is decorated with an enormous mask of Itzamná, the God of Creation, where remains of stucco in colors red and blue can still be seen, as well as glyphs.
		Chicanná as well as Becán, between the Late Classic and Terminal Classic period, must have participated on the commercial route that crossed from the Gulf of México to the South Coast of Qintana Roo State.
	www.inah.gob.mx /inah_ing/zoar/htme/za00303.html (865 words)

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