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ID: 7441523
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7441523
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sufricaya, La (deserted settlement)  Sufricaya, La (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 17 18 14 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 17.3042  decimal degrees
Long: 089 17 06 W  degrees minutes   Long: -89.2852  decimal degrees

Note: Pre-Columbian Mayan site located in the Petén Basin, 1.2 km west of the ancient site of Holmul. Teotihuacano-style imagery and heiroglyphic inscriptions found on stelae and murals suggest a non-Mayan presence or possible occupation, and the site is the source of ongoing investigations.

Names:
Sufricaya, La (preferred,C,V,index)
La Sufricaya (C,V,display)
El Güiro (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Guatemala (nation)  ........  Guatemala (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Petén (department)  ............  Petén (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Sufricaya, La (deserted settlement)  ................  Sufricaya, La (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
ancient site (C)
inhabited place (H)  ............  during the Classic period
Maya (Mayan) (H)

Sources and Contributors:
El Güiro..........  [VP]
.................  Klassischen Maya (2016-) accessed 10 August 2016
La Sufricaya..........  [NRW Preferred, VP Preferred]
.......................  Estrada-Belli, La Sufricaya, Boletín Informativo la Pintura Mural Prehispánica (2003) 38
.......................  Foley, La Sufricaya, Holmul, Petén, FAMSI Report (2003) accessed 18 May 2011
.......................  Klassischen Maya (2016-) accessed 10 August 2016
.......................  Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-) accessed 10 May 2016
Sufricaya, La..........  [VP]
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Subject: .....  [NRW, VP]
..................  Estrada-Belli, La Sufricaya, Boletín Informativo la Pintura Mural Prehispánica (2003) 38-42
..................  Foley, La Sufricaya, Holmul, Petén, FAMSI Report (2003) accessed 18 May 2011
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Estrada-Belli, La Sufricaya, Boletín Informativo la Pintura Mural Prehispánica (2003) 38-42
..........  Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-) "La Sufricaya", accessed 10 May 2016

 

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