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Situated in San Ignacio town along the bank of the Macal River in the Cayo District, Cahal Pech was a ceremonial center with temples, palaces and a ball court and offers visitors a spectacular panoramic view of San Ignacio and the Belize River Valley. Cahal Pech is only a short 10 minute walk from the town’s center with a hilltop visitor center providing a great introduction to life as it was at Cahal Pech.
The name Cahal Pech, meaning "place of ticks", was given when this site was a pasture during the first archaeological studies in the 1950s. It is now an archaeological park, and houses a small museum with artifacts from various ongoing excavations.
The site was a palacio home for an elite Mayan family, and though most major construction dates to the Classic period, evidence of continuous habitation has been dated to as far back as far as 900 BC during the Early Middle Formative period (Early Middle Preclassic), making Cahal Pech one of the oldest recognizably Maya sites in Western Belize. The site rests high near the banks of the Macal River and is a collection of 34 structures, with the tallest being about 75 ft in height. The site was abandoned in the 9th century AD for unknown reasons.
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