It is located 2 kilometers to the northwest of 20 de Noviembre public land, which is a small community 16 kilometers to the southeast of Xpuhill, in the Southeast of Campeche State.

Its name Okolhuitz (okol-to get in to, wits-high and great ridge of mpuntains) means "get in to the high sierra" in Mayan language.

Although there is no exact register of its earliest human occupation, on the basis of its architecture we know that it reached its most succesful period in the Classic (A.D. 600-800) and that its desertion dates aproximately on A.D. 900.

Most of the archaelogycal vestiges of Okolhuitz are found on top of several low hills, with a central axis formed by four monumental architectonic concentrations.

Structure I is an edifice of two rooms communicated between them through an inside narrow hallway; the entrance to one of the room is from the plaza, and to the other one, the one on the orient had its access through a steep staircase.

In this last room remains a niche over the wall towards the main entrance. Several characteristics of the edifice, such as its restringed access, small interior spaces, its monumentality and the abundance of iconographical elements denotes that is was possibly here where religious and ceremonial activities took place.

The most distinctive dash on its facade is its crest or upper pinnacle adorned with modeled stucco, and on its sides remains human figures, hieroglyphics and symbols related with the political and religious power rising the monumentality of the building.

The central motif is a high hierarchy character standing over a stylized mask of the Earth monster, flanked by two fretwork in an upside down T shape, which is a common motif in Maya icongraphical and it is asociated with the Wind symbol, as well as the "breath of life". As part of the general design, some other fretwork in square shape, cross the crest from side to side.

Apparently Stucture II consisted in 8 rooms, two on each side of the edifice, with entrances on each way. The building had two towers such as the Bec style, crowned with false temples which had non functional stairways to access them. Some other structures in the site can be visited, they are Structure VII, VIII, XIV, y XV which have both architectural styles, Río Bec and Petén.

Benavides Castillo, Antonio, Okolhuitz, Campeche, Relocalización Reciente e Inicios de su Conservación. Documento Inédito. Centro INAH Campeche.

Diccionario Maya CORDEMEX. Mérida, Yucatán: Edocopmes CORDEMEX, 1980, 151,924.

Gendrop, Paul. Los estilos Río Bec, Chenes y Puuc. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 1983.