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
For instance, the original route through the Calakmul reserve crossed one end of a vast cavern, dubbed “the bat volcano,” that’s home to about 3 million bats of eight species.
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
With the Maya Train coming through, complete with hotel and tourism complexes, José Antonio Guzmán Hernández, who leads the project, fears Calakmul will turn into something more like Cancun or Tulum.
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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