Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/July 2013

• ... that Temple I (pictured), in the Maya ruins of Tikal in Guatemala, is a 47-metre (154 ft) high funerary monument dedicated to king Jasaw Chan Kʼawiil I who died in AD 734?
• ... that Chitinamit in Guatemala was the first capital of the highland Kʼicheʼ Maya?
• ... that the Lacandon Jungle is the last in North America large enough to support jaguars?