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Manche Chʼol

Index Manche Chʼol

The Manche Chʼol (Ch'olti' menche) were a Maya people who constituted the former Manche Chʼol Territory, a Postclassic polity of the southern Maya Lowlands, within the extreme south of what is now Petén and the area around Lake Izabal (also known as the Golfo Dulce) in northern Guatemala, and southern Belize. [1]

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  1. 105 relations: Acala Chʼol, Acalan, Alta Verapaz Department, American Philosophical Society, Ancient Maya art, Annatto, Antonio Margil, Bacalar, Belize, Bloodletting in Mesoamerica, Cambridge University Press, Campeche, Cancuén River, Chetumal, Chetumal Province, Chʼolan languages, Chʼoltiʼ language, Chixoy River, Christian mission, Classic Maya collapse, Classic Maya language, Cobán, Cocoa bean, Conquistador, Copal, Copán, Corregidor (position), Dominican Order, Duke University Press, Dulce River (Guatemala), Dzuluinicob, Encomienda, Franciscans, Guatemala, Guatemalan Highlands, Gulf of Honduras, Haabʼ, Hernán Cortés, Human sacrifice in Maya culture, Itza people, Izabal Department, J. Eric S. Thompson, Lacandon Jungle, Ladino people, Laguna de Términos, Lakandon Chʼol, Lake Izabal, List of Maya gods and supernatural beings, Mano (stone), Maya ceramics, ... Expand index (55 more) »

  2. Chʼol
  3. Former countries in North America
  4. Former indigenous peoples in Guatemala
  5. History of Belize
  6. History of Petén
  7. Indigenous peoples in Belize
  8. Izabal Department
  9. Maya Contact Period
  10. Maya Postclassic Period
  11. Maya peoples
  12. Mayan chiefdoms of the Yucatán Peninsula
  13. Spanish conquest of Central America
  14. Toledo District

Acala Chʼol

The Acala Chʼol were a former Chʼol-speaking Maya people who occupied a territory to the west of the Manche Chʼol and east of the Chixoy River in what is now the Alta Verapaz Department of Guatemala. Manche Chʼol and Acala Chʼol are Chʼol, former indigenous peoples in Guatemala, maya Contact Period and maya peoples.

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Acalan

Acalan (Chontal Maya: Tamactun, Nahuatl: Acallan) was a Chontal Maya region in what is now southern Campeche, Mexico.

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Alta Verapaz Department

Alta Verapaz is a department in the north central part of Guatemala.

See Manche Chʼol and Alta Verapaz Department

American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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Ancient Maya art

Ancient Maya art comprises the visual arts of the Maya civilization, an eastern and south-eastern Mesoamerican culture made up of a great number of small kingdoms in present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.

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Annatto

Annatto is an orange-red condiment and food coloring derived from the seeds of the achiote tree (Bixa orellana), native to tropical parts of the Americas.

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Antonio Margil

Antonio Margil, OFM (18 August 1657 – 6 August 1726) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary in North and Central America.

See Manche Chʼol and Antonio Margil

Bacalar

Bacalar is the municipal seat and largest city in Bacalar Municipality (until 2011 a part of Othón P. Blanco Municipality) in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, about north of Chetumal.

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Belize

Belize (Bileez) is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America.

See Manche Chʼol and Belize

Bloodletting in Mesoamerica

Bloodletting was the ritualized practice of self-cutting or piercing of an individual's body that served a number of ideological and cultural functions within ancient Mesoamerican societies, in particular the Maya.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Campeche

Campeche (Kaampech), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Campeche (Free and Sovereign State of Campeche), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Cancuén River

The Cancuén River is a river that flows through Guatemala.

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Chetumal

Chetumal (Chactemàal) is a city on the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.

See Manche Chʼol and Chetumal

Chetumal Province

Chetumal, or the Province of Chetumal (u kuchkabal Chetumal), was a Postclassic Maya state of the Yucatan Peninsula, in the Maya Lowlands. Manche Chʼol and Chetumal Province are former countries in North America, history of Belize and Mayan chiefdoms of the Yucatán Peninsula.

See Manche Chʼol and Chetumal Province

Chʼolan languages

The Chʼolan languages form a branch of the Mayan family of languages, comprising four languages, namely, Chʼol, Chʼoltiʼ, Chʼortiʼ, and Chontal.

See Manche Chʼol and Chʼolan languages

Chʼoltiʼ language

Chʼoltiʼ is an extinct language belonging to the Ch’olan branch of the Mayan family of languages.

See Manche Chʼol and Chʼoltiʼ language

Chixoy River

The Chixoy River or Río Chixoy is a river in Guatemala.

See Manche Chʼol and Chixoy River

Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational or hospital work, in the name of the Christian faith.

See Manche Chʼol and Christian mission

Classic Maya collapse

In archaeology, the classic Maya collapse is the decline of the Classic Maya civilization and the abandonment of Maya cities in the southern Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica between the 7th and 9th centuries.

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Classic Maya language

Classic Maya (or properly Classical Chʼoltiʼ) is the oldest historically attested member of the Mayan language family.

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Cobán

Cobán (Kob'an), fully Santo Domingo de Cobán, is the capital of the department of Alta Verapaz in central Guatemala.

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Cocoa bean

The cocoa bean, also known simply as cocoa or cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted.

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Conquistador

Conquistadors or conquistadores (lit 'conquerors') was a term used to refer to Spanish and Portuguese colonialists of the early modern period.

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Copal

Copal is a tree resin, particularly the aromatic resins from the copal tree Protium copal (Burseraceae) used by the cultures of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica as ceremonially burned incense and for other purposes.

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Copán

Copán is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization in the Copán Department of western Honduras, not far from the border with Guatemala.

See Manche Chʼol and Copán

Corregidor (position)

A corregidor was a local administrative and judicial official in Spanish Empire.

See Manche Chʼol and Corregidor (position)

Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers (Ordo Prædicatorum; abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian-French priest named Dominic de Guzmán.

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Duke University Press

Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University.

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Dulce River (Guatemala)

Dulce River (Río Dulce, or "Sweet River") is a river in Guatemala, completely contained within the department of Izabal.

See Manche Chʼol and Dulce River (Guatemala)

Dzuluinicob

Dzuluinicob, or the Province of Dzuluinicob or Ts'ulwinikob, (label) was a Postclassic Maya state in the Yucatán Peninsula of the Maya Lowlands. Manche Chʼol and Dzuluinicob are former countries in North America, history of Belize and Mayan chiefdoms of the Yucatán Peninsula.

See Manche Chʼol and Dzuluinicob

Encomienda

The encomienda was a Spanish labour system that rewarded conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples.

See Manche Chʼol and Encomienda

Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders of the Catholic Church.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.

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Guatemalan Highlands

The Guatemalan Highlands is an upland region in southern Guatemala, lying between the Sierra Madre de Chiapas to the south and the Petén lowlands to the north.

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Gulf of Honduras

The Gulf or Bay of Honduras is a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea, indenting the coasts of Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.

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Haabʼ

The Haabʼ is part of the Maya calendric system.

See Manche Chʼol and Haabʼ

Hernán Cortés

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.

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Human sacrifice in Maya culture

During the pre-Columbian era, human sacrifice in Maya culture was the ritual offering of nourishment to the gods and goddesses.

See Manche Chʼol and Human sacrifice in Maya culture

Itza people

The Itza are a Maya ethnic group native to the Péten region of northern Guatemala and parts of Belize. Manche Chʼol and Itza people are maya Contact Period and maya Postclassic Period.

See Manche Chʼol and Itza people

Izabal Department

Izabal is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala.

See Manche Chʼol and Izabal Department

J. Eric S. Thompson

Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson (31 December 1898 – 9 September 1975) was a leading English Mesoamerican archaeologist, ethnohistorian, and epigrapher.

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Lacandon Jungle

The Lacandon jungle is an area of rainforest which stretches from Chiapas, Mexico, into Guatemala.

See Manche Chʼol and Lacandon Jungle

Ladino people

The Ladino people are a mix of mestizo or Hispanicized peoples en el Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (DRAE) in Latin America, principally in Central America.

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Laguna de Términos

Laguna de Términos is the largest tidal lagoon by volume located entirely on the Gulf of Mexico, as well as one of the most biodiverse.

See Manche Chʼol and Laguna de Términos

Lakandon Chʼol

The Lakandon Chʼol were a former Chʼol-speaking Maya people inhabiting the Lacandon Jungle in what is now Chiapas in Mexico and the bordering regions of northwestern Guatemala, along the tributaries of the upper Usumacinta River and the foothills of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. Manche Chʼol and Lakandon Chʼol are Chʼol, former indigenous peoples in Guatemala, maya Contact Period and maya peoples.

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Lake Izabal

Lake Izabal, also known as the Golfo Dulce, is the largest lake in Guatemala with a surface area of and a maximum depth of.

See Manche Chʼol and Lake Izabal

List of Maya gods and supernatural beings

This is a list of deities playing a role in the Classic (200–1000 CE), Post-Classic (1000–1539 CE) and Contact Period (1511–1697) of Maya religion.

See Manche Chʼol and List of Maya gods and supernatural beings

Mano (stone)

A mano (Spanish for hand) is a ground stone tool used with a metate to process or grind food by hand.

See Manche Chʼol and Mano (stone)

Maya ceramics

Maya ceramics are ceramics produced in the Pre-Columbian Maya culture of Mesoamerica.

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Maya city

Maya cities were the centres of population of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.

See Manche Chʼol and Maya city

Maya Lowlands

The Maya Lowlands are the largest cultural and geographic, first order subdivision of the Maya Region, located in eastern Mesoamerica.

See Manche Chʼol and Maya Lowlands

Maya Mountains

The Maya Mountains are a mountain range located in Belize and eastern Guatemala, in Central America.

See Manche Chʼol and Maya Mountains

Maya peoples

The Maya are an ethnolinguistic group of indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. Manche Chʼol and Maya peoples are indigenous peoples in Belize.

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Maya religion

The traditional Maya or Mayan religion of the extant Maya peoples of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and the Tabasco, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Campeche and Yucatán states of Mexico is part of the wider frame of Mesoamerican religion.

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Melancholia

Melancholia or melancholy (from µέλαινα χολή.,Burton, Bk. I, p. 147 meaning black bile) is a concept found throughout ancient, medieval, and premodern medicine in Europe that describes a condition characterized by markedly depressed mood, bodily complaints, and sometimes hallucinations and delusions.

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Mesoamerican chronology

Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE); the Archaic (before 2600 BCE), the Preclassic or Formative (2500 BCE – 250 CE), the Classic (250–900 CE), and the Postclassic; as well as the post European contact Colonial Period (1521–1821), and Postcolonial, or the period after independence from Spain (1821–present).

See Manche Chʼol and Mesoamerican chronology

Metate

A metate (or mealing stone) is a type or variety of quern, a ground stone tool used for processing grain and seeds.

See Manche Chʼol and Metate

Moho River

The Moho River is a river of Guatemala and Belize. Manche Chʼol and Moho River are Toledo District.

See Manche Chʼol and Moho River

Monkey River

Monkey River is a coastal watercourse in southern Belize that rises in the Maya Mountains and discharges to the Caribbean Sea near Monkey River Town. Manche Chʼol and Monkey River are Toledo District.

See Manche Chʼol and Monkey River

Mopan River

The Mopan River is a river in Central America spanning the Petén Department of Guatemala and the Cayo District of Belize.

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Mopan Territory

The Mopan Territory, historically also known as Aycal, was a Postclassic polity of the former Maya Lowlands, in present-day Belize and Guatemala. Manche Chʼol and Mopan Territory are former countries in North America, history of Belize, history of Petén and Mayan chiefdoms of the Yucatán Peninsula.

See Manche Chʼol and Mopan Territory

Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología

The Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología (MUNAE; National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology) is a national museum of Guatemala, dedicated to the conservation of archaeological and ethnological artifacts and research into Guatemala's history and cultural heritage.

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Nim Li Punit

Nim Li Punit is a Maya Classic Period site in the Toledo District of the nation of Belize, located 50 kilometres north of the town of Punta Gorda, and directly adjacent to the village of Indian Creek. Manche Chʼol and Nim Li Punit are Toledo District.

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Nito (Maya site)

Nito was a trading post of the Maya civilization in Mesoamerica.

See Manche Chʼol and Nito (Maya site)

Nojpetén

Nojpetén (also spelled Noh Petén, and also known as Tayasal) was the capital city of the Itza Maya kingdom of Petén Itzá. Manche Chʼol and Nojpetén are history of Petén.

See Manche Chʼol and Nojpetén

Ocellated turkey

The ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) is a species of turkey residing primarily in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, as well as in parts of Belize and Guatemala.

See Manche Chʼol and Ocellated turkey

Pasión River

The Pasión River (Río de la Pasión) is a river located in the northern lowlands region of Guatemala.

See Manche Chʼol and Pasión River

Periodisation of the history of Belize

The periodisation of the history of Belize is the division of Belizean, Maya, and Mesoamerican history into named blocks of time, spanning the arrival of Palaeoindians to the present time.

See Manche Chʼol and Periodisation of the history of Belize

Petén Basin

The Petén Basin is a geographical subregion of the Maya Lowlands, primarily located in northern Guatemala within the Department of El Petén, and into the state of Campeche in southeastern Mexico.

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Petén Department

Petén (from the itz'a, Noj Petén, 'Great Island') is a department of Guatemala.

See Manche Chʼol and Petén Department

Peten Itza kingdom

The Peten Itza kingdom was a kingdom centered on the island-city of Nojpetén on Lake Peten Itza. Manche Chʼol and Peten Itza kingdom are former countries in North America, history of Petén and Mayan chiefdoms of the Yucatán Peninsula.

See Manche Chʼol and Peten Itza kingdom

Polygamy

Polygamy (from Late Greek πολυγαμία, "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses.

See Manche Chʼol and Polygamy

Poqomam people

The Poqomam are a Maya people in Guatemala and El Salvador. Manche Chʼol and Poqomam people are maya peoples.

See Manche Chʼol and Poqomam people

Pozole

Pozole (from pozolli, meaning cacahuazintle, a variety of corn or maize) is a traditional soup or stew from Mexican cuisine.

See Manche Chʼol and Pozole

Qʼeqchiʼ

Qʼeqchiʼ (Kʼekchiʼ in the former orthography, or simply Kekchi in many English-language contexts, such as in Belize) are a Maya people of Guatemala, Belize and Mexico. Manche Chʼol and Qʼeqchiʼ are indigenous peoples in Belize, Izabal Department, maya peoples and Toledo District.

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Quichean languages

The (Greater) Quichean languages are a branch of the Mayan family of Guatemala.

See Manche Chʼol and Quichean languages

Quiriguá

Quiriguá is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the department of Izabal in south-eastern Guatemala. Manche Chʼol and Quiriguá are Izabal Department.

See Manche Chʼol and Quiriguá

Rabinal

Rabinal is a small town, with a population of 15,157 (2018 census), located in the Guatemalan department of Baja Verapaz, at.

See Manche Chʼol and Rabinal

Real Audiencia of Guatemala

The Real Audiencia of Santiago de Guatemala (Audiencia y Cancillería Real de Santiago de Guatemala), simply known as the Audiencia of Guatemala or the Audiencia of Los Confines, was a Real Audiencia (appellate court) in the Imperial Spanish territory in Central America known as the Captaincy General of Guatemala (1609-1821).

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Repartimiento

The Repartimiento (Spanish, "distribution, partition, or division") was a colonial labor system imposed upon the indigenous population of Spanish America and the Philippines.

See Manche Chʼol and Repartimiento

Resplendent quetzal

The resplendent quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) is a small bird found in Central America and southern Mexico that lives in tropical forests, particularly montane cloud forests.

See Manche Chʼol and Resplendent quetzal

Sacapulas

Sacapulas is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché.

See Manche Chʼol and Sacapulas

Sacrifice in Maya culture

Sacrifice was a religious activity in Maya culture, involving the killing of humans or animals, or bloodletting by members of the community, in rituals superintended by priests.

See Manche Chʼol and Sacrifice in Maya culture

San Agustín Lanquín

San Agustín Lanquín, often referred to simply as Lanquín, is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz.

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Santa Cruz El Chol

Santa Cruz El Chol is a municipality in the Baja Verapaz department of Guatemala.

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Santa María Cahabón

Cahabón is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Sierra de los Cuchumatanes

The Sierra de los Cuchumatanes is the highest non-volcanic mountain range in Central America.

See Manche Chʼol and Sierra de los Cuchumatanes

Sierra de Santa Cruz (Guatemala)

The Sierra de Santa Cruz is a small mountain range in eastern Guatemala.

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Sierra del Mico

The Sierra del Mico (or Montañas del Mico) is a small mountain range northeast of the Sierra de las Minas, near Puerto Barrios.

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Sittee River

Sittee River is a river in Belize.

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Spanish conquest of Petén

The Spanish conquest of Petén was the last stage of the conquest of Guatemala, a prolonged conflict during the Spanish colonisation of the Americas. Manche Chʼol and Spanish conquest of Petén are history of Petén and Spanish conquest of Central America.

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Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.

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Stann Creek District

Stann Creek District is a district in the south east region of Belize.

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Tamale

A tamale, in Spanish, is a traditional Mesoamerican dish made of masa, a dough made from nixtamalized corn, which is steamed in a corn husk or banana leaves.

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Toledo District

Toledo District is the southernmost and least populated district in Belize.

See Manche Chʼol and Toledo District

Toquegua

Toquegua may be the name of a group of people, and a language, spoken along the Atlantic coast of Guatemala and Honduras from the area around the mouth of the Golfo Dulce to the Ulua river in Honduras. Manche Chʼol and Toquegua are former indigenous peoples in Guatemala.

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Trade in Maya civilization

Trade was a crucial factor in maintaining Maya cities.

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Tropical rainforest

Tropical rainforests are dense and warm rainforests with high rainfall typically found between 10° north and south of the Equator.

See Manche Chʼol and Tropical rainforest

University of New Mexico Press

The University of New Mexico Press (UNMP) is a university press at the University of New Mexico.

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University Press of Colorado

The University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit publisher that was established in 1965.

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Vanilla

Vanilla is a spice derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily obtained from pods of the flat-leaved vanilla (V. planifolia).

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Verapaz, Guatemala

Verapaz, formerly Tezulutlan, was a second order subdivision of the former Kingdom of Guatemala, itself a constituent part of New Spain.

See Manche Chʼol and Verapaz, Guatemala

Yucatecan languages

The Yucatecan languages form a branch of the Mayan family of languages, comprising four languages, namely, Itzaj, Lacandon, Mopan, and Yucatec.

See Manche Chʼol and Yucatecan languages

See also

Chʼol

Former countries in North America

Former indigenous peoples in Guatemala

History of Belize

History of Petén

Indigenous peoples in Belize

Izabal Department

Maya Contact Period

Maya Postclassic Period

Maya peoples

Mayan chiefdoms of the Yucatán Peninsula

Spanish conquest of Central America

Toledo District

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manche_Chʼol

Also known as Manche Chol, Manche Chol Territory.

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