Birthday

0001-01-01

Place of Birth

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Biography

Guillermo de Anda is an archaeologist dedicated to research on Maya civilization. Guillermo specialties include the study of caves and cenotes and the sacred geography of the Maya. For 14 years, Guillermo was a professor and researcher at the Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas of the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY), where he founded and directed the underwater archaeology department. Currently, Guillermo works for Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), where Guillermo oversees special projects in underwater archaeology. Guillermo is the director of the National Geographic-supported Great Maya Aquifer project in Yucatán, and has also received grants from the Society for his Cenote Cult project.