Arturo Montero

Ismael Arturo Montero García (Mexico City, December 15, 1961) Mexican archaeologist, who has discovered 53 sites with pre-Hispanic evidence in the high mountains of Mesoamerica, for which he obtained the National Award for Forestry Merit, by the Government of Mexico in the year 2002, International Year of Mountains, declared by Unesco. In 2009, he led the expedition that discovered the highest site in the world on the path of the terrestrial equator, he has published scientific articles and books that have earned him the recognition of the Encyclopedia "Wielka Encyklopedia Gór i Alpinizmu" for his contribution to the mountaineering field.

He collaborated as a speleologist in the Great Mayan Aquifer project, a project that in 2018 received public recognition from the Congress of the Union, by agreement of the LXIII Legislature of the Chamber of Deputies. He currently serves as director of the organization Ipan tepeme ihuan oztome ([https://www.montero.org.mx ITIO]), has taught for 30 years in different public and private universities and recently at the University of the Army and the Air Force, he is director of the Science Research and Dissemination Center at the [https://www.montero.org.mx/tepeyac/ University of Tepeyac]. After completing his academic stay as a national researcher at the National Council of Science and Technology, he has chosen to dedicate his efforts to the conservation of natural and cultural heritage at the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas, in the office of biocultural affairs as a Consultant to the United Nations (UN). Provided by Wikipedia