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  2. Lamanai - Wikipedia

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    The Maya ruins of Lamanai once belonged to a sizable Maya city in the Orange Walk District of Belize. "Lamanai" comes from the Maya term for "submerged crocodile", a nod to the toothy reptiles who live along the banks of the New River. Lamanai Belize jungle brims with exotic birds and hydrophilic iguanas. There is evidence on Maya life that ...

  3. Maya ruins of Belize - Wikipedia

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    Maya ruins of Xunantunich. The Maya ruins of Belize [1] [2] include a number of well-known and historically important pre-Columbian Maya archaeological sites. Belize is considered part of the southern Maya lowlands of the Mesoamerican culture area, and the sites found there were occupied from the Preclassic (2000 BCE–200 CE) until and after the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century.

  4. Mask Temple - Wikipedia

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    Mask Temple The Mask (Mask Temple, Lamanai) The Mask Temple (officially known as Lamanai Structure N9-56) is a Maya civilization structure at the archaeological site of Lamanai, in present-day Orange Walk District, Belize. It is the smallest of three excavated pre-Columbian temples at Lamanai (the two other temples are the Jaguar Temple and ...

  5. High Temple - Wikipedia

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    The High Temple is an ancient Mayan temple at the Lamanai archaeological site in Orange Walk District, Belize.. The High Temple's highest exposed height of 33 metres (108 ft) cannot be climbed even in the presence of a tour guide, due to an incident in which a woman was hospitalized with a severe spinal fracture, leaving her unable to walk.

  6. Jaguar Temple - Wikipedia

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    Jaguar temple "Jaguar mask". The Jaguar Temple (officially known as Lamanai Structure N10-9) is a stepped-pyramid structure at the Maya archaeological site of Lamanai, located in present-day Belize.

  7. Insights into Mayan civilization's collapse found in Belize's ...

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    Researchers studying sediment in Belize's Blue Hole have found that the weather may actually have been what caused the collapse of the Mayan civilization. Theories as to why a civilization as ...