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palenque
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Palenque \Pa*len"que\, n. pl. (Ethnol.) A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.
Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) A community of runaway slaves.
Wikipedia
Palenque (; Yucatec Maya: Bàakʼ /ɓàːkʼ/), also anciently known as Lakamha (literally: "Big Water"), was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that flourished in the 7th century. The Palenque ruins date from ca. 226 BC to ca. AD 799. After its decline, it was absorbed into the jungle of cedar, mahogany, and sapodilla trees, but has since been excavated and restored and is now a famous archaeological site attracting thousands of visitors. It is located near the Usumacinta River in the Mexican state of Chiapas, about 130 km (81 mi) south of Ciudad del Carmen, 150 m (164 yd) above sea level. It averages a humid 26 °C (79 °F) with roughly 2160 mm (85 in) of rain a year.
Palenque is a medium-sized site, much smaller than such huge sites as Tikal, Chichen Itza, or Copán, but it contains some of the finest architecture, sculpture, roof comb and bas-relief carvings that the Mayas produced. Much of the history of Palenque has been reconstructed from reading the hieroglyphic inscriptions on the many monuments; historians now have a long sequence of the ruling dynasty of Palenque in the 5th century and extensive knowledge of the city-state's rivalry with other states such as Calakmul and Toniná. The most famous ruler of Palenque was K'inich Janaab Pakal, or Pacal the Great, whose tomb has been found and excavated in the Temple of the Inscriptions.
By 2005, the discovered area covered up to 2.5 km² (1 sq mi), but it is estimated that less than 10% of the total area of the city is explored, leaving more than a thousand structures still covered by jungle.
Palenque in Spanish means a "[wooden] palisade or stockade". In modern usage, it means an arena, or a cockpit in cockfighting.
Palenque may refer to:
- Palenque, archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya, located in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico
- Palenque, Chiapas the modern town and municipality in Mexico
- Palenque (village), a type of village of escaped slaves
- Palenque, Los Ríos, Ecuador
- Palenque Canton, Ecuador
- Isla Palenque, an island of Panama, off the western Pacific shoreline
- Palenque, Colón, a town in Panama
- San Basilio de Palenque, Colombian town
- Palenque, or palenquero, Spanish-based creole language spoken in parts of coastal Colombia
- Concerts during Carnival in Jalisco, notably Jalostotitlán, Mexico
Usage examples of "palenque".
Temple of the Foliated Cross at Palenque and the lizard form is clearly seen in the eyebrow and the upper jaw.
Temple of the Cross at Palenque shows a crested heron standing on one foot and holding in its bill a fish.
Waldeck found near Palenque two pyramids in a state of perfect preservation, square at the base, pointed at the top, and thirty-one feet high, their sides forming equilateral triangles.
Death stood between us, I jumped to the conclusion that it was on me of an older generation that his hand would fall, on me who was about to undertake a journey which I guessed to be dangerous, including as it did a visit to the ruins of Palenque, whither at the time few travellers ventured.
The original arrangement was that we were to have travelled to the marvellous ruins of Palenque, which were built by some pre-Aztec race.
Humboldt has placed it on the northwest coast, Cabrera at Palenque, Clavigero north of Anahuac, etc.
Bird-Serpent, and his rebus and cross at Palenque, I have already explained.
Doubtless he has adapted them somewhat to proselytizing purposes, but they seem very likely to be close copies of authentic aboriginal songs, referring to the return of Zamna or Kukulcan, lord of the dawn and the four winds, worshipped at Cozumel and Palenque under the sign of the cross.
Brasseur to make of Xibalba an ancient kingdom of renown with Palenque as its capital, is so utterly unsupported and wildly hypothetical, as to justify the humorous flings which have so often been cast at antiquaries.
She had once told Cayetano that she would like to take refuge with him in San Basilio de Palenque, a settlement of fugitive slaves twelve leagues from here, where she was sure to be received like a queen.
By the time she discovered that they were fleeing in droves to San Basilio de Palenque to escape her insatiable craving, it was too late.
On his arrival Richard was literally set upon by Meeta and Palenque who playfully and repeatedly dunked him.
By the time Michael arrived and engaged in similar activities with Mura, since Sart and Palenque had swum to the far end of the pool, Richard was content to languish in a place where he and Meeta could sit with their heads above the surface.
Suzanne was walking with Garona, Perry with Luna, Richard with Meeta, Palenque, and Karena, and Michael with Mura and Sart.
Everyone looked at each other quizzically, but before anyone could speak, the door opened and in walked Mura, Meeta, Palenque, and Karena.