The site

One of the largest Maya cities, buried in the jungle of the Belizean highlands and only rediscovered in 1937. At its height it may have housed over 100,000 people, linked by causeways to outlying plazas, and its stelae record a war in which Caracol defeated mighty Tikal in 562. Its pyramid Caana — 'sky place' — rises 43 m and is still the tallest structure in Belize. Dense forest kept it hidden for a millennium, and much of it still lies unexcavated.

Field notes

civilizations

Maya

types

City

built

300 BCE — 900 CE

occupied

1,200 BCE — 900 CE

country

Belize