Fishermen find an ancient anchor off the coast of Yucatan

Merida, Yucatan.- An anchor weighing 400 kilos and 1.7 meters high and 1.6 meters wide, presumably from the colonial era (1521-1810), was located on the coasts of the Mexican state of Yucatan, southeast of the country, when local fishermen were diving about eight meters deep. Everything indicates that the historical piece is from the time of the Colony or before, when the pirate Jean Lafitte terrorized the ports of Santa Clara and Dzilam de Bravo, “José Alfredo Uicab Pantí, one of the inhabitants of Dzidzantún, who is dedicated to teaching, told Efe on Thursday. The discovery, which occurred last Monday, was made by fishermen from the Mexican port of Santa Clara, in the community of Dzidzantún, in the northeast of Yucatán.La news excited the inhabitants of Santa Clara, a community that has in fishing its main economic activity, as well as the authorities of the municipality who immediately called the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) for its protection and research. ” Everyone was excited, because that anchor confirms that this part of the Yucatecan coast was indeed a pirates’ passage and due to that discovery now the stories of pirates that our grandparents told us resurface,” added the teacher. The fishermen found the anchor between the ports of Santa Clara and Dzilam de Bravo, at the height of the sites known as Mina de oro and the Casa Roja, where stories of treasures hidden by pirates are interwoven. However, the master Uicab Pantí revealed that “the interesting thing about this report is that they found other vestiges under the water, in the same place, but they do not know what it is and they can not get it out, so the ancient inhabitants of the port return to take stories of treasures and pirates”. On the object found and brought to the surface, the head of the Legal Department of INAH-Yucatan, Arturo Chab Cárdenas, told Efe that “it is a metal anchoring piece, with two hooks and weighing approximately 400 kilos, measuring 1.7 meters high and 1.6 meters wide.” This would be the second anchor found in 2022 on the coasts of Yucatan, since last March in the Port of Progreso, near the city of Merida, capital of Yucatan, the INAH protected a huge piece of 1.5 tons of weight and 3.03 meters long by 2 meters wide. The piece that the fishermen found in Santa Clara, is already in the possession of the INAH for its evaluation, protection, conservation and research. We recommend you read:Two human rights defenders in Jalisco are deprived of their libertyUnidentified, four corpses sheltered and with traces of violence in Ciudad JuárezIn Guaymas and Empalme, Sonora, they will take DNA sample from relatives of the disappearedThe port of Santa Clara, which refers to the Italian religious Santa Clara de Asís, is peculiar, since it does not have as much beach as others on the Yucatan coast due to the erosion of the sea, although it attracts visitors, since it is the penultimate place of the so-called Costa Smeralda of Yucatan.  Mockery or clue? Motel Nueva Castilla uploads mysterious VIDEO shortly before the discovery of Debanhi

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