Becán

Becán is a locality in Mexico. It lies in the municipality of Calakmul in the state of Campeche, in the eastern part of the country, 1 000 km east of the capital, Mexico City. It sits 272 meters above sea level and has 268 inhabitants.

The terrain around Becán is flat. The surroundings are sparsely populated, with 11 inhabitants per square kilometre. The nearest larger community is Xpujil, 7.3 km east of Becán. The area around it is covered mainly by evergreen broadleaf forest.

Nothing further is recorded here about the monuments of Becán: no description of any structure, no excavation history and no account of what survives. The atlas lists it as an unclassified site and gives a dating of 600 to 500 BCE, taken from a statement rather than from a stated measurement or a stated method of excavation. Beyond that range, the dating, function and appearance of the site cannot be described from the material at hand.

For context, civilisations in Mesoamerica raised carved stone monuments. Maya stelae are tall sculpted stone shafts, often paired with low circular stones called altars, though their actual function is uncertain. The sculpting of such monuments spread across the Maya area in the Classic Period, about 250 to 900 CE, and during that period almost every Maya kingdom in the southern lowlands raised stelae in its ceremonial centre. The Olmec colossal heads, much older, date from at least 900 BCE. These are general facts about the region and are not statements about Becán itself.

Becán is a other / unclassified in Calakmul Municipality, Mexico. Wikidata describes it as: human settlement in Mexico. Dating: 600 BCE to 500 BCE. Elevation: 272 m. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Swedish article "Becán", shown in the original language.