Cerros
Mayan site
Photos from 1990
Cerros site
Cerros is a Maya archaeological site in northern Belize that reached its apogee during the Mesoamerican Late Preclassic. At its nader, it held a population of approximately 1,089 people. The site is strategically located on a peninsula at the mouth of the New River where it empties into Chetumal Bay on the Caribbean coast. As such, the site had access to and served as an intermediary link between the coastal trade route that circumnavigated the Yucatán Peninsula and inland communities. The inhabitants of Cerros constructed an extensive canal system and utilized raised-field agriculture.
The core of the site immediately abuts the bay and consists of several
relatively large structures and stepped pyramids, an acropolis complex, and two
ballcourts. Bounding the southern side of the site is a crescent-shaped canal
network that encloses the central portion of the site and encloses several
raised-fields. Residential structures continue outside of the canal, generally
radiating southwest and southeast; raised-fields are also present outside of the
canal system.
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