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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. The site is located 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west-northwest of the town of San Miguel. [8] Quelepa is 13 miles (21 km) north of the neighbouring site of Los Llanitos. [9]
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.
Old Tanauan Church Ruins; Pamitaan Site, Solana, Cagayan; Pandanan Shipwreck; Pinagbayanan excavation; Peñablanca Protected Landscape and Seascape; Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras; Rizal Archaeological Site (Kalinga) San Diego (ship) at Nasugbu, Batangas; Sheik Karimol Makhdum Mosque; Spanish Colonial Fortifications of the Philippines
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).
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. [ 5 ] 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 ...
Reconstruction of excavated shaft tomb exhibited at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico.. The Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition refers to a set of interlocked cultural traits found in the western Mexican states of Jalisco, Nayarit, and, to a lesser extent, Colima to its south, roughly dating to the period between 300 BCE and 400 CE, although there is not wide agreement on this end date.
Quelepa is a major site in eastern El Salvador. Its pottery shows strong similarities to ceramics found in central western El Salvador and the Maya highlands. The Lenca sites of Yarumela, Los Naranjos in Honduras, and Quelepa in El Salvador, all contain evidence of the Usulután-style ceramics.
Temple IV at the Classic Period Maya ruins of Tikal, 8th century AD, Peten Department, Guatemala. Toniná. Mexico Great Pyramid of Toniná Maya: 75 200 to 900 CE The Great Pyramid of Toniná is the tallest Maya and Mesoamerican pyramid and also the tallest Pre Columbian building in the Americas. Tzintzuntzan. Mexico 5 yácata pyramids Purépecha