🇭🇳 Honduras · Archaeological wonder
Los Naranjos, Honduras
Los Naranjos is the name for an archaeological region in western Honduras which belongs to the Lenca culture. It lies on the north border of Lake Yojoa.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Temple complex
Copán — Hieroglyphic Stairway North Balustrade (Honduras)
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture; Maya
Copán — Hieroglyphic Stairway North Balustrade (Honduras) in Copán, Copán Ruinas, Honduras is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex at…
🇭🇳 Honduras · Pyramid
Copán — Temple 16 Pyramid and Hieroglyphic Stairway (Copán Department, Honduras)
Classic Maya (250–900 CE) · Maya (Copán dynasty, Yax Kuk Mo lineage)
Defining Classic Maya southeastern capital (250–900 CE) 12 km from Guatemala border, population 27,000.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Buried city
Ciudad Blanca — Mosquitia Lidar Block T3 Rio Plátano Second Settlement (Honduras)
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
Ciudad Blanca – White City of the Mosquitia (Kuhikugu Variant)
Claimed Postclassic 1000 CE (real earthwork 500–1000) · Moskito pre-Columbian / Morde myth
Honduras Mosquitia lidar 2015 reveals mound lattice but not white marble metropolis Recorded context — Period: Claimed Postclassic 1000 CE (real earthwork 500–1000); Culture: Moskito pre-Columbian /…
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient city
El Puente (Maya site)
El Puente, or the Parque Arqueológico El Puente ("El Puente Archaeological Park"), is a Maya archaeological site in the department of Copán in Honduras.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Archaeological wonder
Peñol de Cerquín
The Peñol de Cerquín (Spanish pronunciation: [peˈɲol de seɾˈkin]): "Rock of Cerquín") was a mountaintop Lenca fortress in southern Honduras during the Contact Period (1520–1540).
🇭🇳 Honduras · Archaeological wonder
Rio Amarillo (Mayan site)
Rio Amarillo also known as La Castellona or La Canteada, is an archaeological site of the Mayan civilization located in the department of Copan in Honduras that dates back to the Mesoamerican…
🇭🇳 Honduras · Archaeological wonder
Tenampúa
Tenampúa is an archaeological site belonging to the Lenca culture dating from the Mesoamerican classical period, located in central Honduras in the Comayagua valley.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Archaeological wonder
Travesía
Travesía also known as Ulua-Yoja s is an important pre-Columbian archaeological sites in the Ulua river valley of Honduras.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Pyramid
Yarumela
Yarumela also known as El Chircal, is one of the archeological sites located in Honduras and based around the Middle Formative era in Mesoamerican history, occupied between 1000 BC and AD 250 by the…
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient city
Copan Hieroglyphic Stairway Step 33
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Copan Hieroglyphic Stairway Step 33 in Copán, Honduras is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient village
Puerto Escondido
Early Formative to Terminal Classic 1600 BCE–900 CE, peak Early-Middle Formative 1400–400 BCE · Preclassic Maya-adjacent (Ulúa Valley Formative, Ocotillo/Playón ↔ Olmec-linked)
Early village CR-372 in Lower Ulúa Valley suburbs of San Pedro Sula with continuous occupation 1600 BCE–900 CE; yielded earliest cacao residue in Mesoamerica (1150 BCE) in pottery, Olmec-style…
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient city
Ciudad Blanca / City of the Monkey God
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…
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient city
Copán
Classic 426–822 CE (dynastic Copán, peak 695–820) · Maya (southeast Petén sphere, Copán kingdom, non-Maya frontier)
Premier Classic southeastern Maya capital and sculpture capital: Acropolis with 4,500 glyph Hierarchical Stairway (longest Classic Maya text – 72 steps, 2,200 glyphs recording 14 kings), Rosalila…