Cantelac
Toledo
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Founded
1677?
Ended
1677 (0 years)?

‘‘In 1677 Father Delgado and companion traveled down the Yaxal (Mojo [Moho]) River from Pusilha, and struck northwards along the coast of British Honduras.’’ On June 7, 1677, while on the banks of a branch of the Moho River, Delgado wrote a memorandum describing the settlements and the land through which he passed (Thompson 1988: 35–9; see also Thompson 1938). His memorandum specifies the existence of a Maya community called Cantelac between San Antonio and Pueblo Viejo, near the ‘‘Yaxal’’ (i.e., Yax Ha’) or Moho River. Elsewhere I have argued that this memorandum contributes to the pattern of evidence that suggests that the present-day village of Santa Cruz is very near the probable location of a Maya village called Cantelac, probably home to Mopan- speaking (and possibly Manche Chol-speaking) people at the time of the arrival of the Spanish in the New World

1677
1677