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Vega de Cobán

This is an almost unknown but large Classic site (400 to 1000 AD)  with an Acrópolis and 4 Ball Courts, the largest being 70 Mt Long and 8 Mt. wide, there are not Tall Temples but there are more than 300 Structures, this site along with Guaytán, dominated the Jade and Obsidian commerce routes in the Motagua Valley, until Quiriguá gained the regional power deafeating Copàn.  There were Jade workshops, that were first worked in smaller sites such as Agulucho and La Ceiba, and then refined and finished here. 4 ball court markers have been found, one is a Pecarí shape of 1.10 mt in Diameter, they are now in the Teculután Museum. A Burial with Vaulted crypt and 3 bodies have been found with several polychrome Ceramic and Jade objects.

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