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  2. Quiriguá - Wikipedia

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    The southern Maya area, showing the locations of Quiriguá and Copán The location of Quiriguá on the Motagua River, with relation to sources of jade. The archaeological site of Quiriguá is named after the nearby village of the same name, [8] and is located a little over 200 km (120 mi) northeast of Guatemala City; [9] it lies in the municipality of Los Amates in the department of Izabal and ...

  3. Category:Archaeological sites in Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    Maya sites in Guatemala (2 C, 29 P) Pages in category "Archaeological sites in Guatemala" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total.

  4. Tikal - Wikipedia

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    Tikal (/ t i ˈ k ɑː l /; Tik'al in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, [1] found in a rainforest in Guatemala. [2] It is one of the largest archeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization .

  5. Motul de San José - Wikipedia

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    Map of Lake Petén Itzá, showing the location of Motul de San José near the northern shore. Motul de San José lies within a dense cluster of smaller satellite sites. [14] It is 32 kilometres (20 mi) to the southwest of the major Classic Period ruins of Tikal. [15] The site is about 275 kilometres (171 mi) north of Guatemala City.

  6. List of World Heritage Sites in Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    Antigua, the capital of the Captaincy-General of Guatemala, was founded in the early 16th century. Built 1,500 m above sea-level, in an earthquake-prone region, it was largely destroyed by an earthquake in 1773 but its principal monuments are still preserved as ruins.

  7. Kaminaljuyu - Wikipedia

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    Kaminaljuyu (pronounced / k æ m i n æ l ˈ h uː j uː /; from Kʼicheʼʼ, "The Hill of the Dead" [1]) is a Pre-Columbian site of the Maya civilization located in Guatemala City. Primarily occupied from 1500 BC to 1200 AD, [ 2 ] it has been described as one of the greatest archaeological sites in the New World [ 3 ] —although the extant ...

  8. Seibal - Wikipedia

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    The ruins of Seibal were probably discovered around 1890 by loggers working for the Hamett Mahogany Company. Federico Arthes, an owner of logging company Arthes and Sons, first reported the existence of the ruins of Saxtanquiqui, the Maya name of the site, in 1892 in a public article for the Guatemala City paper.

  9. Yaxha - Wikipedia

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    Yaxha (or Yaxhá in Spanish orthography) is a Mesoamerican archaeological site in the northeast of the Petén Basin in modern-day Guatemala.As a ceremonial centre of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, Yaxha was the third largest city in the region and experienced its maximum power during the Early Classic period (c. AD 250–600).

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