Also know as chunyaxche, Muyil is the name of one of the two lagoons adjacent to the site and gives its name to the city; both are located within to Sian Kaan Biosphere Reserve.The place is located 12 kilometers inland from the Caribbean coast, about 25 kilometers south of Tulum. Its lakeside location, properly in the Sian Kaan lagoon, gave the place a strategic position on the commercial route, maintaining contact with Chicen Itza, first, and with Mayapan, later. It remained inhabited between 1200-1500, shortly before or until the arrival of the spanish conquerors
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