[Aztlan] Maya Mountains

[Dan Deneen]

Hola Listeros,
Does anyone have first-hand experience of the range of mountains called
"Maya Mountains" that run in a SW-NE direction across the Guatemala-Belize
border?  I'm puzzled by the Cortes account, in his Fifth Letter, of a
harrowing 12-day traverse across "the  most remarkable sight in the world,
and the most perilous to cross" in the course of which 68 horses fell to
their deaths.  But topo maps, and satellite imagery, and Google earth all
suggest a very modest little range, far less imposing than dozens of others
these guys would have encountered.  Any insights?

Thanks!
--Daniel D.
Xalapa, Ver.