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Cerros

18 21'30 "N 88 21'07" W / 18.35833, -88.35194

Cerros

Cerros is an archaeological Mayan Preclassic period of the located in the Corozal Bay in Belize. Excavated in the 1980s, he was the subject of an article in National Geographic. Debra S. Walker describes his chronology: Development 50 BC. BC , declining to 150. The question arises whether this period overlaps with the chronological sequence of the site of El Mirador , an ancient Mayan city in Belize housing a temple whose construction took place around 300 BC. AD is an example of early Mayan buildings.

Cerros is built on the banks of a navigable river which allowed to trade. The inhabitants of Cerros fished but also built an extensive system of canals to increase agricultural production. Cerros would it have been a small trading port on the Caribbean coast to supply the trade route of El Mirador?

Mayan relics are probably still in the vicinity of the city because we are far from having searched the entire area that the city was probably busy. It begs the question of which blocked the expansion of the site at the end of the Preclassic.