Kʼakʼ Chan Yopaat

Kʼakʼ Chan Yopaat was the eleventh dynastic ruler at Copán. He was crowned as king in AD 578, 24 days after the death of Tzi-Bʼalam. At the time of his rule Copán was undergoing an unprecedented rise in population, with residential land use spreading to all available land in the entire Copán Valley. The two surviving stelae of Kʼakʼ Chan Yopaat contain long hard-to-decipher hieroglyphic texts and are the oldest monuments at the site to survive without being either broken or buried. He had a long reign, ruling at Copán for 49 years, and he died on 5 February 628. His name is recorded on four stelae erected by his successors, one of which describes a rite performed with relics from his tomb in AD 730, almost a hundred years after his death.[1]

Kʼakʼ Chan Yopaat
Ajaw of copan
Stela P in Copan depicts Kʼakʼ Chan Yopaat
Reign578-628
PredecessorTzi-Bʼalam
SuccessorChan Imix Kʼawiil
BornCopan
Died5 February 628 (Aged 64 ?)
Copan

Notes
  1. Martin & Grube 2000, pp.200–201.

References
Martin, Simon; Nikolai Grube (2000). Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya. London and New York: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05103-8. OCLC 47358325.
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