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  2. Maya peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Maya area within Mesoamerica. The Maya (/ ˈ m aɪ ə /) are an ethnolinguistic group of indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica.The ancient Maya civilization was formed by members of this group, and today's Maya are generally descended from people who lived within that historical region.

  3. Maya civilization - Wikipedia

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    The Maya civilization developed in the Maya Region, an area that today comprises southeastern Mexico, all of Guatemala and Belize, and the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador. It includes the northern lowlands of the Yucatán Peninsula and the Guatemalan Highlands of the Sierra Madre , the Mexican state of Chiapas , southern Guatemala ...

  4. Maya Americans - Wikipedia

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    Maya also migrated to other Central American countries like Mexico, but a large amount migrated to the United States. Today, Maya have settled in places like San Francisco, Miami, and the Great Plains. Providence, Rhode Island, also became a prominent destination for many Maya people during the Guatemalan Civil War. [8]

  5. PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident - AOL

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    That is more than the number of people who live in the region today, the researchers say. ... as it is just 15 minutes hike from a major road near Xpujil where mostly Maya people now live.

  6. Maya Region - Wikipedia

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    The Maya Region is traditionally divided into three cultural and geographic, first order subdivisions, namely, the Maya Lowlands, Maya Highlands, and the Maya Pacific. [6] [note 5] The Region's internal borders, like some of its external ones, are not usually precisely fixed, as they are rather demarcated by 'subtle environmental changes or transitions from one zone to another.' [7] [8 ...

  7. Southern Maya area - Wikipedia

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    Southernmost sites of the Southern Maya area. Maya scholarship long has considered the ancient Maya in a temporal and geographic sense to have come into being, thermometer-fashion – as things began to “warm up,” socially and culturally – at the “bottom,” that is, in Southern Mesoamerica, in the Early Preclassic period: events and processes coalesced on the Pacific coast of what is ...

  8. Lacandon people - Wikipedia

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    The Maya site of Bonampak, famous for its preserved temple murals, became known to the outside world when Lacandóns led American photographer Giles Healy there in 1946. A few Lacandon continue their traditional religious practices today, especially in the north around Lakes Naja and Mensabok.

  9. Itza people - Wikipedia

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    The Itza were descended from the Ah Itzá Yucatecan Maya lineage; historically they were an important Mesoamerican people who dominated the Yucatán peninsula in the Post-classic period. The Itza may have originated from the Classic Period city of Motul de San José near lake Peten Itza in Guatemala , migrating to Yucatán during the Maya ...