Cerros

Cerros

Ruins of Cerros
Location of the site Show map of Mesoamerica Cerros (Belize) Show map of Belize
Location	Corozal District, Belize
Coordinates	18°21′30″N 88°21′07″W / 18.35833°N 88.35194°W / 18.35833; -88.35194
History
Periods	Late Preclassic to Postclassic
Cultures	Maya civilization
Site notes
Condition	In ruins

Cerros is an Eastern Lowland Maya archaeological site in northern Belize that functioned from the Late Preclassic to the Postclassic period. The site reached its apogee during the Mesoamerican Late Preclassic and at its peak, it held a population of approximately 1,089 people.^[1] The site is strategically located on a peninsula at the mouth of the New River where it empties into Chetumal Bay on the Caribbean coast. As such, the site had access to and served as an intermediary link between the coastal trade route that circumnavigated the Yucatán Peninsula and inland communities. The inhabitants of Cerros constructed an extensive canal system and utilized raised-field agriculture.