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Multi-periodSite Name: Copa'nCountry: Honduras Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Latitude: 14.838940N Longitude: 89.14204W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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XIII visited on 1st Sep 2012 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 5
Tdiver visited on 1st Jan 1992 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 5
DrewParsons have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 5 Access: 5
A Classical Mayan city that flourished from the 500 to 900 AD. Famed for its portrait stela of rulers, the site also contains pyramids, a ball court, and private homes made of stone and decorated with carvings.
Copán is well known for grand, carved and inscribed monuments, a hieroglyphic stairway with the longest text in the Americas, and other famed discoveries in the ceremonial center of the city and its Acropolis. The area shows signs of pre-Maya occupation back to 2000 BC. The city was not occupied as an active site by the time of the Spanish conquest, although small farming communities lay close at hand.
Note: Dynastic founder of Mayan Copán may have been installed by kingdom to the north. See comments.
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