Sierra del Lacandón Regional Archaeology Project

Reconnaissance of Fajardo

The site of Fajardo has not been previously reported to archaeologists, but mounds were reported to the Defensores de la Naturaleza following a recent macaw survey in the Sierra del Lacandón (Marie-Claire Paíz and Rosa María Chan, personal communication 2003). Project members conducted a brief reconnaissance of the area along the eastern side of the central bajo, just west of the sierra (Figure 10, shown below). Settlement is similar to Esmeralda in terms of density and the orientation of settlement to seasonally inundated wetlands and seasonally filled arroyos. Plaza groups are located at intervals of approximately 50 to 80 m. In approximately five hours of reconnaissance we were able to identify and take points on twenty-seven plaza groups. Fajardo, like Esmeralda is probably a tertiary political node, but no identifiable center for this site was located in the very limited explorations conducted during the 2003 field season.

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