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2 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Buried city
Postclassic (c.1000 – 1500 CE) · Mosquitia culture (Ulua-influenced)
Mosquitia T3 east valley 3 km² — twin plazas 19 mounds and were-jaguar cache 1000–1400 CE, second city beyond T1 western cache.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient city
Classic to Postclassic (500–1500 CE, peak 1000–1400) · Unknown Mosquitia culture (possibly Pech/Cahut) linked to Mesoamerican sphere
Recently confirmed pre-Columbian urban complex in Mosquitia rainforest, revealed 2012 LiDAR, excavated 2015 with plazas, earthworks, ballcourt, caches of jaguar effigy vessels (500+ sculptures) dated…