Calakmul
Americannoun
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They believe it is second in size only to Calakmul, thought to be the largest Mayan site in ancient Latin America.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2024
Under a starry sky in the Calakmul reserve, as unseen frogs chirp and insects trill, Medellín Legorreta patiently works to untangle a bat caught in a mist net.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023
By that time, a handful of powerful Maya city-states like Tikal, Calakmul, and El Mirador had grown to large urban centers and were using their own sophisticated writing and calendar system.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Now the focus has shifted to this section that crosses the intact Calakmul jungle, which is part of the larger Mayan jungle, the largest tropical forest in the Americas after the Amazon.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
Consider Calakmul, the ruin that Peter Menzel and I visited in the early 1980s.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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