The Pomoná Kingdom and its Hinterland

San Carlos Boca del Cerro

This site lies at the base of the Boca del Cerro hills on the left margin of the Usumacinta River and must have been part of Panhale’s sustaining area (Figure 16, shown above). The site is almost completely covered by the present-day town of San Carlos. Only four small mounds are still visible dispersed in an area of about 400 m², the biggest of which is a semicircular mound, measuring some 30 m in diameter and 3 to 4 m high. The presence of a few scattered limestone blocks suggests that perhaps there might have been a masonry structure associated to this mound. The other mounds are almost 20 m of diameter with a height that does not exceed 1.5 m. These mounds were mainly built with river cobbles although some dressed limestone blocks were also noticed.

The only archaeological artefacts recovered came from a few ceramic shards from surface collections, and from a test pit that was excavated close to the river edge. As mentioned above, this site must have been part of the sustaining area for Panhale, which judging by the presence of surface ceramics may have extended over 4 km along the river edge.

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