Belize, Guatemala, western El Salvador, northwestern Honduras, southeastern Mexico
Part of
Mesoamerica
Area
• Total
125,000 sq mi (320,000 km2)a
Dimensions
• Length
540 mi (870 km)b
• Width
410 mi (660 km)b
Highest elevation
13,845 ft (4,220 m)c
(Tajumulco Volcano)
Subdivisions
Lowlands
Highlands
Pacific
a cf [note 1]
b cf [note 2]
c cf [note 3]
The Maya Region is cultural, first order subdivision of Mesoamerica, located in the eastern half of the latter. Though first settled by Palaeoindians by at least 10,000 BC, it is now most commonly characterised and recognised as the territory which encompassed the Maya civilisation in the pre-Columbian era.
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The MayaRegion is cultural, first order subdivision of Mesoamerica, located in the eastern half of the latter. Though first settled by Palaeoindians...
mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system. The Maya civilization developed in the MayaRegion, an area that today comprises southeastern Mexico, all...
The Maya Lowlands are the largest cultural and geographic, first order subdivision of the MayaRegion, located in eastern Mesoamerica. The Maya Lowlands...
Maya cities were the centres of population of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica. They served the specialised roles of administration,...
Several well-known Mesoamerican cultures include the Olmec, Teotihuacan, the Maya, the Aztec and the Purépecha. Mesoamerica is often subdivided in a number...
Mexico. The essentials of the Maya calendar are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region, dating back to at least the 5th...
members of this group, and today's Maya are generally descended from people who lived within that historical region. Today they inhabit southern Mexico...
of Maya occupation at Cuello, Belize have been carbon dated to around 2600 BC. Settlements were established around 1800 BC in the Soconusco region of...
as ten years. This technique, common throughout the Maya area, is still practiced in the region today. Complementing swidden techniques were crop rotation...
archaeology, the classic Maya collapse is the decline of the Classic Maya civilization and the abandonment of Maya cities in the southern Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica...
in the Classic period, particularly at Teotihuacan and throughout the Mayaregion. Pyrite degrades with time to leave little more than a stain on the mirror...
however substantially perforating it. Specimens identified from the Maya civilization region of southern Mexico, Guatemala and the Yucatán Peninsula show no...
of the Late Postclassic Maya states and polities into the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Maya occupied the MayaRegion, an area that is now part...
Trade was a crucial factor in maintaining Maya cities. Activity consisted mainly of foods like fish, squash, yams, corn, honey, beans, turkey, vegetables...
Classic Maya (or properly Classical Chʼoltiʼ) is the oldest historically attested member of the Mayan language family. It is the main language documented...
appears in hieroglyphic texts from the Mayaregion as puh, or "Place of Reeds". This suggests that, in the Maya civilization of the Classic period, Teotihuacan...
Classic Period was dominated by numerous independent city-states in the Mayaregion and also featured the beginnings of political unity in central Mexico...
cultures which comprised the Maya civilization spanned more than 2,500 years of Mesoamerican history, in the MayaRegion of southern Mesoamerica, which...
and to encourage the development of a region that has historically been neglected by the state. The Tren Maya project was announced in September 2018...
plain monuments are found throughout the Mayaregion. The sculpting of these monuments spread throughout the Maya area during the Classic Period (250–900...
Kukulkan in Yucatan) was introduced in the region by the Itza around 987 AD. The Itza were a group of mixed Putún Maya and Toltec descent, which had welcomed...
sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now northern Guatemala...
Playa del Carmen is a popular tourist destination in Mexico's Riviera Mayaregion. Its current growth rate is set at 7.5% per year. According to the Guinness...
frequent variants) is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche, deep in the jungles of the greater Petén Basin region. It is 35 kilometres...
how important this specific form of water symbolism was throughout the Mayaregion. Lily pads floating in a lake in Toronto, Canada Lily pads floating on...
Hocabá dictionary and is not employed elsewhere in the region or in Mexico, by either Spanish or Maya speakers. As used in Hocabá, "Mayab" is not the recognized...
Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican...
plain monuments are found throughout the Mayaregion. The sculpting of these monuments spread throughout the Maya area during the Classic Period (250–900...
(25 mi) to the south of Tulum. This larger region is what is currently being promoted as part of the Riviera Maya tourist corridor. Once the area was originally...
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