Calakmul
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
He learned years ago to decipher the sounds of the Calakmul jungle in Mexico’s southern Yucatan.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
In the mid-1990s the Mexican government paved a road to the site, which is now the center of the 1.7-million-acre Calakmul Biosphere Reserve.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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