Yucatec Mayan and means: In the well of the hollow. Its infrastructure includes, educational services (a kindergarten, a primary school, a high school and a Bachelors School and a municipal library), a clinic of the Mexican Social Security Institute
as well as recreational parks and marinas. 90% of Its streets are paved.
Pre-Columbian History
Komchén is also the location of a
pre-Columbian Mayaarchaeological site of the same name and is situated close to the site of Dzibilchaltun. Pre-Columbian Komchén was initially settled during the MesoamericanMiddle Preclassic. Its earliest settlement consisted of a small residential community with perishable structure. The site transitioned into a larger community during the Late Preclassic, reaching its peak in construction between the years 350-150 BC[2] and employing permanent stone masonry in architectural
construction. It appears that the site was entirely abandoned by the end of the Late Preclassic (ca. A.D. 250). Later, however, the site was partially reoccupied by residents of the expanding center of Dzibilchaltun.
Archaeological investigation of the site commenced during the early 1980s when a research project, under the direction of E. Wyllys Andrews V of the Middle American Research Institute (MARI) of Tulane University, began excavating at Komchén.[3] This research documented nearly 1000 residential structures in an area approximately 2 km2 in size, including a core of five large platforms (the tallest of which was 8 meters) and a sacbe (one of the earliest identified in the Yucatán) (Andrews et al. 1984).
^Andrews, E. Wyllys, V, Ringle William M., Barnes P.J. Komchen, an Early Maya Community in Northwest Yucatán. In Investigaciones recientes en el área maya 1:73-92. XVII Mesa Redonda, Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia, Mexico City, 1984
