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The San Miguel volcano dominates the local topography. The Quelepa archaeological site is located 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside the small village of the same name. [7] The ruins are situated along the north bank of the San Esteban River, a tributary of the Río Grande de San Miguel which flows into the Pacific Ocean.
Suspected extension of the historical Lenca people. Since pre-European times the Lencas occupied various areas of what is now known as Honduras and El Salvador.The Salvadoran archaeological site of Quelepa (which was inhabited from the pre-classic period to the beginning of the early post-classic period) is considered a site that was inhabited and ruled by the Lencas.
Augusta Trayana (Roman ruins of modern Stara Zagora) Bacho Kiro cave; Castra Martis; Dionysopolis; Develtos; Diocletianopolis (modern Hisarya) Durankulak lake and island ; Ezero (tell) Heraclea Sintica; Ivanovo Rock-hewn Churches; Kabyle; Kaliakra; Karanovo (tell) Kozarnika cave
El Tintero. Kuélap is a now-abandoned walled settlement that covers an area of about six hectares, 584 m from north to south and 110 m at its widest. [1] The walls are 10 to 20 m high with masonry of limestone blocks finely worked (some blocks may weigh 3 tons).
Naachtun is situated in the extreme north of Petén, in a central location between Tikal and Calakmul, the two great Classic Period Maya powers, both of which constantly influenced its politics. The hieroglyphic texts from the site cover almost the whole Classic Period from 504 to 761 AD, although the site inhabited since the Preclassic. [19] Nakbe
According to Adolfo Costenla Umaña, the Salvadoran Lenca and the Honduran Lenca would have separated 2,295 years ago; time in which the archaeological site of Quelepa would have been founded. [ 4 ] Salvadoran Lenca is of the small language family of Lencan languages that consists of two languages one of which is the Salvadoran Lenca and the ...
[3] [6] The researchers plan further fieldwork, [6] describing the ruins as "hidden in plain sight" only a 15-minute walk from Federal Highway 186 near Xpujil and cultivated farmland. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The researchers named the site "Valeriana", after a nearby lake named Laguna la Valeriana.
According to the tradition recompiled by several historians, the Tepanec people constituted one of the seven tribes that started the migration from Chicomoztoc (in nahuatl, "The Seven Caves"), a place which has no certain location.