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Bilbao (Mesoamerican site)

Monument 21 at Bilbao.[1]

Bilbao is a Mesoamerican archaeological site about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the modern town of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa in the Escuintla department of Guatemala.[2] The site lies among sugar plantations on the Pacific coastal plain and its principal phase of occupation is dated to the Classic Period.[3] Bilbao was a major centre belonging to the Cotzumalhuapa culture with its main occupation dating to the Late Classic (c. AD 600–800).[4] Bilbao is the former name of the plantation on which the site lies and from which it has derived its name.[5]

  1. ^ Kelly 1996, p. 220.
  2. ^ Adams 1996, p. 227. Kelly 1996, p. 219.
  3. ^ Sharer 2000, pp. 482-3. Adams 1996, p. 228.
  4. ^ Sharer 2000, pp. 482-3.
  5. ^ Kelly 1996, p. 217.

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