Today, the Usumacinta River defines the border between Guatemala and the Mexican state of Chiapas, but in antiquity its waters lay between the rival Maya cities of Piedras Negras and Yaxchilán.
The buildings at the imperial mountain resort at Chengde were built in stages between 1703 and 1792 and were where Qing emperors from Kangxi (r.1661-1722) onwards spent much of their time.
Several capacity building workshops and conservation projects have protected the historic fabric of South America’s Jesuit Guaraní missions and established them as a cohesive group.