Pajaral

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Pajaral, otherwise known as El Pajaral, is the modern name for a mid-sized ruined city of the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site located to the south of the San Pedro Martir river in the Petén department of Guatemala. The name El Pajaral was coined by archaeologist Ian Graham, who discovered the site in the 1970s, and refers to the numerous birds he encountered there during his survey.
The immediately visible architecture at Pajaral is characterized by temple-mounds ranging from between 8-20 meters in height. Some of these are built atop natural hills: the upper plaza at the site, for example, was constructed on a modified hill 300 meters long by 30 meters high.
Although the map of the site is far from complete, it appears that settlement here is rather dispersed and in keeping with other large settlements in the area, including the archaeological site of La Joyanca. Such settlement is not the norm in many places around the Petén Basin. Even Zapote Bobal, the likely regional capital, is more centralized and characterized by a royal palace proper.
However, the architecture at the heart of Pajaral is massive: for example, the Main Plaza at Pajaral is accessed by a well-preserved, enormous staircase 150 feet wide and perhaps 100 feet long. Based upon inscriptions and feline iconography at this site, scholars have suggested that this staircase, and its accompanying hill, was the basis for the name Hix Witz and that Pajaral, not Zapote Bobal, was the original regional capital In any event, the scale of construction at Zapote Bobal clearly indicates that by the 600s it had eclipsed its western neighbor and taken the name Hix Witz for its own.

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