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<< Other Photo Pages >> Las Mercedes - Ancient Village or Settlement in Costa Rica

Submitted by durhamnature on Friday, 01 February 2013  Page Views: 3664

Multi-periodSite Name: Las Mercedes
Country: Costa Rica
NOTE: This site is 148.315 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Guacimo
Latitude: 10.166667N  Longitude: 83.616667W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4
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Las Mercedes
Las Mercedes submitted by durhamnature : Old photo of retaining wall of mound from "Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua" via archive.org Site in Costa Rica (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient settlement in Costa Rica

25 hectare settlement with platforms, plazaz, walls, terraces, roads and funerary areas. In use between 3500 and 500 years ago.

Excavated in 1916-17 by Alanson Skinner, and again in recent years.
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Las Mercedes
Las Mercedes submitted by durhamnature : Stone figure, from "Archaeological Researches...." via archive.org Site in Costa Rica (Vote or comment on this photo)

Las Mercedes
Las Mercedes submitted by durhamnature : Old photos from "Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua" via archive.org Site in Costa Rica (Vote or comment on this photo)

Las Mercedes
Las Mercedes submitted by durhamnature : Old photo from "Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua" via archive.org Site in Costa Rica (Vote or comment on this photo)

Las Mercedes
Las Mercedes submitted by durhamnature : Old plan drawings from the Alanson Skinner excavations, from "Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua" via archive.org Site in Costa Rica (Vote or comment on this photo)

Las Mercedes
Las Mercedes submitted by durhamnature : Old plan drawings from "Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua" via archive.org Site in Costa Rica

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