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}}'''Komchén''' is a community in the [[Mérida Municipality, Yucatán|Mérida Municipality]] in the state of [[Yucatán (state)|Yucatán]], located in southeastern [[Mexico]]. Komchén is located 15 kilometers north of the city of Mérida, in the northwestern portion of the [[Yucatán Peninsula]] and is approximately 20&nbsp;km from the northern peninsular coast. Its name comes from the [[Yucatec Mayan]] and means: ''In the well of the hollow''. Its infrastructure includes, educational services (a kindergarten, a primary school, a high school and a Bachelors School and a municipal library), a clinic of the [[Mexican Social Security Institute]] as well as recreational parks and marinas. 90% of Itsits streets are paved.

Komchén is also the location of a [[pre-Columbian]] [[Maya civilization|Maya]] [[archaeological site]] of the same name and is situated close to the site of [[Dzibilchaltun]]. Pre-Columbian Komchén was initially settled during the [[Mesoamerica]]n [[Mesoamerican chronology|Middle Preclassic]]. Its earliest settlement consisted of a small residential [[community]] with perishable structure. The site transitioned into a larger community during the Late Preclassic, reaching its peak in construction between the years 350-150 BC<ref>Sharer, Robert J. ''The Ancient Maya, 5th edition.'', page 130 Stanford University Press, Stanford. 1994. {{ISBN |0-8047-2310-9}}</ref> and employing permanent stone [[masonry]] in [[architecture|architectural]] construction. It appears that the site was entirely abandoned by the end of the Late Preclassic (ca. A.D. 250). Later, however, the site was partially reoccupied by residents of the expanding center of Dzibilchaltun.

[[Archaeology|Archaeological]] investigation of the site commenced during the early 1980s when a research project, under the direction of E. Wyllys Andrews V of the [[Middle American Research Institute]] (MARI) of [[Tulane University]], began [[archaeological excavation|excavating]] at Komchén.<ref>Andrews, E. Wyllys, V, Ringle William M., Barnes P.J. ''Komchen, an Early Maya Community in Northwest Yucatán. In Investigaciones recientes en el área maya 1:73-92. XVII Mesa Redonda'', Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia, Mexico City, 1984</ref> This research documented nearly 1000 residential structures in an area approximately 2&nbsp;km²² in size, including a core of five large platforms (the tallest of which was 8 meters) and a [[sacbe]] (one of the earliest identified in the Yucatán) (Andrews et al. 1984).