Now a days, Kankí has no access to people due to the archaeological activities which are being held.

It is located 16 kilometers to the southeast of Tenabo, on the North of Campeche State.

Kankí is the Mayan name of a wild bush which has many tiny yellow flowers. The site was reported on May 1940 by Pollok who found it during his expeditions in the Puuc region of Campeche State.

The fist evidence of human occupation of the site is dated late on the Late-Classic period, between A.D. 500 and 600, reaching its most successful period between A.D.600-650, and its latest occupation registers are dated between A.D. 800-1000 during the Terminal-Classic period.

A group of adjacent hills served to the Kanki population to erect the center of the site, where several structures are located forming intercommunicated patios disposed in different levels. They used the surrounding plains for agricultural purposes where two sacbés or paths have been found.

The Central Group is composed by 10 patios, numerous chultunes and low platforms. This is the place where Stucture I or Palace is located and it is probably the most important one of the site, and it consists of a two level edifice which has columns with capitel that form 8 or 10 accesses to two rooms separated by a broad central staircase; over it there are remains of carved figures, Chaac masks and friezes decorated with carved rectangles, such as the Puuc style.

Almost every construction is this group have columns with tambour or monolitic capitel, and almost all the vaults of the building have been sealed with mud-walls since the Pre-Hispanic period. The north Group or Geco is composed by seven edifices, and four of them form a small patio.

The Cacabbeec Group or the little frog’s group is composed by five buildings. Two richly decorated lintels were rescued from the site which now are exposed in the Baluarte de la Soledad in Campeche City. Some other important structures in Kankí are the Structure VI or the Inverted Stairway Vault, and the Column Conjunctive.

(FIG.1) This lintel was reported by Pollok in 1980.

It is 1.40 meters long and 0.54 meters broad with 0.26 meters depth, it is carved in two of its sides, in the front section there is a silhouette of a man standing up, with a fancy apparel, he wears a feathered head-dress, a spear and a round shield.

Next to this character, in front of his head, there are two mythological figures.

The second one seams to include the number Ten, the other carved side is one of the narrow ones.

This one denotes several hieroglyphic cartridges flanked by profile mayan faces with feathered head-dress and a bung circular ear.

(FIG.2) This lintel is 1.50 meters long, 0.56 meters broad and 0.28 meters depth. It is only carved on one of its sides. It denotes two characters sitting to exchange some objects.

One of them seems to be holding a tied cloth, while the other one is holding a long feathered bird. This one has several characteristics of the Sun God, and some investigators believe that such cloths are somehow associated with a transmission of power between dynastic lineages.

Zapata Peraza, Renée Lorelei. Kankí y la Región de Xcalimkín.

Memorias del Segundo Congreso Internacional de Mayistas.

México: UNAM, 1995. 530-537.

Zapata Peraza, Renée Lorelei. Exploraciones recientes en Kankí,

Campeche, México. Mexicon. (1991) pag.51.