Yes, there's obviously a lot of hooey associated with this region. I've read
the first link below before, and I accept that the bit about the mysterious zone
is hype concocted to draw tourists.
Lowell
----- Original Message -----
From: "acroorca2002" <orc@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 5:36 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: La Zona del Silencio
> nice going lowell
> another hot spot to be sure
> & that makes duo trifinia mexicana for you already
> nor can i restrain myself from aiding & abetting your excellent try
>
> from this amusing testimonial of its former superintendent
> http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/akaus/akzone.html
> i have learned your mx2chcodu is already famous as
> el vertice de trino
> or roughly translated
> the warbling or triller tripoint
> & practically as weird a name for the center of the silent zone
> as eureka is for the capital of the lost coast
>
> vertice btw is evidently an exclusively or mainly mesoamerican
> term not so much for a tripoint per se as for any geodetic turn
> point or terminal point
> or as we might say vertex
>
> but this vertice de trino is the only named tristate point i have
> been able to find anywhere in mexico
>
> however
> each of the 8 turnpoints of gtmx is also named el vertice de
> something or other
> & since you are a gtmx fan & i am so pleased to believe i have
> finally figured them all out
> i will tell you they are easily spotted on a decent guatemala map
> & their names are
> proceeding from pacific toward atlantic
> muxbal
> niquilhuil
> santiago
> chixoy
> usumacinta
> ceibo
> campeche &
> last but most famous el vertice de aguas turbias
> which was formerly thought to equal bzgtmx
> but has recently been found to be a point on gtmx only
> & is in fact a little shy of the new improved best available bzgtmx
>
> but more to our present point & vertice
> it is possibly only the confusion of vertex with vortex at chcodu
> that has caused all this extravagance of miscomprehension
> about it
> such as is met with in these also entertaining accounts
> http://www.planeta.com/planeta/97/1197zone.html &
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5484/4-zona.htm
>
> & wow like has anyone ever definitively found any supposed
> vortex points like this anywhere
> or the so called power vortices
> like say those supposedly reversible sedona anodes
> etc etc
> tho i admit it all smacks of our own recent visit to boclpe by ovni
> so i just dont know
>
> but anyway your inegi maps show chcodu very approachable by
> at least a burro track
> & tho we have been led by the above links to expect the trifinium
> to fall upon el cerro de san ignacio in la sierra del diablo
> inegi doesnt show chcodu as any more of a peak tripoint than it
> does memopu at popocatepetl
> & our next best mexican maps that also failed us at memopu
> dont even show the freakin mountain range this san ignacio
> peak is supposedly in
> hahaha
> so here we are holding steady in class e
> with still no clue about any mexican tristate monument anywhere
> but at least now we know the name of what we are looking for
>
> & class e is often the most fun to be in anyway