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Uxmal is a classic example of what has become known as "Puuc style" architecture. Here we see the collonaded East Portico, which exhibits the use of columns in building faces and entryways. Tatiana Proskouriakoff defines the Puuc region and its architecture in "An album of Maya Architecture": "The flat limestone plain of northern Yucatan is broken by a range of hills that starts near Campeche on the west coast of the peninsula, runs northeastward, and then turns to the southeast, forming an angle with its apex to the north. In the region defined by this angle, named the Puuc from the Maya word for hills, was developed a style of architecture conspicuous for its careful workmanship in stone. Facing stones are accurately squared, smoothly finished, and nicely fitted together. In section they are very thin, forming a veneer that adheres to the surface of the wall, the body of which is a monolithic mass of rubble and mortar. This technique is not limited to the Puuc region, but here, after a long develpment, it attained a consummate refinement." (Image Credit: Jim Spadaccini, Ideum)

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The East Portico runs north-south and sits near the House of the Magician, visible in the background. Long rows of repeated columns are a trademark of Puuc architecture, so-called for the Puuc hills of northwestern Yucatan; an architectural style of which Uxmal is emblematic. (Image Credit: Jim Spadaccini, Ideum)

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