{"id":1110,"date":"2019-10-16T20:35:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T20:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site115.blogs.americavip.com\/2019\/10\/16\/tibes-indian-ceremonial-center\/"},"modified":"2020-08-04T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T10:08:33","slug":"tibes-indian-ceremonial-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/2019\/10\/16\/tibes-indian-ceremonial-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibes Indian Ceremonial Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/116\/files\/sites\/116\/2019\/10\/Tibes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1107\" src=\"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/116\/files\/sites\/116\/2019\/10\/Tibes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/116\/files\/sites\/116\/2019\/10\/Tibes.jpg 750w, http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/116\/files\/sites\/116\/2019\/10\/Tibes-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tibes Indian Ceremonial Center (Rte. 503, Tibes, at km. 2.2)(2 miles north of Ponce) &#8212; Bordered by the R\u00edo Portugu\u00e9z and excavated in 1975, this is the oldest cemetery in the Antilles. It contains some 186 skeletons, dating from A.D. 300, as well as pre-Ta\u00edno plazas from A.D. 700. The site also includes a re-created Ta\u00edno village, seven rectangular ball courts, and two dance grounds. The arrangement of stone points on the dance grounds, in line with the solstices and equinoxes, suggests a pre-Columbian Stonehenge. Here you&#8217;ll also find a museum, an exhibition hall that presents a documentary about Tibes, a cafeteria, and a souvenir shop.<\/p>\n<p>Go east along Av. De las Americas until Av. De Hostos, which turns immediately into Calle Salud. Take a left at Calle Trioche and a right at Calle Mayor Cantera, which leads into the Carretera Tibes. Go right on Rte. 503, then bear left to stay on road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tibes Indian Ceremonial Center (Rte. 503, Tibes, at km. 2.2)(2 miles north of Ponce) &#8212; Bordered by the R\u00edo Portugu\u00e9z and excavated in 1975, this is the oldest cemetery in the Antilles. It contains some 186 skeletons, dating from A.D. 300, as well as pre-Ta\u00edno plazas from A.D. 700. The site also includes a re-created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-puerto-rico-en","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}