- town was
founded in the 5th century,
becoming an
important place for the
Chortis tribes. It was
originally founded in the
place known as Las Mataras, which...
- Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. The
Chortis Block forms the
northwestern portion of the
Caribbean Plate. The
Chortis Block is
bounded on the
north by the...
- been
proposed for the
origin of the
Chortis Block:
According to the first, most
widely accepted model, the
Chortis Block moved c. 1,100 km (680 mi) eastward...
-
southernmost extremes extend beyond this
crustal fragment into the
neighbouring Chortis Block of the
Caribbean Plate. The
Region notably houses the
active Motagua–Polochic...
- Ch'orti' (or
Chorti) may
refer to: Ch'orti'
people - one of the
indigenous Maya
peoples of
southeastern Guatemala and
western Honduras Ch’orti’ language...
- The
Spanish conquest of
Honduras was a 16th-century
conflict during the
Spanish colonization of the
Americas in
which the
territory that now comprises...
- The
Chʼortiʼ language (sometimes also
Chorti) is a
Mayan language,
spoken by the
indigenous Maya
people who are also
known as the
Chʼortiʼ or
Chʼortiʼ Maya...
-
ethnic groups." 1
Among these are: Los Lencas, Payas, Chorotegas, Xicaques,
Chortis, just to
mention a few. All of
these groups lacked "cultural unity," and...
-
American plate,
Caribbean plate,
Cocos plate, and
Nazca plate, and by the
Chortis tectonic block. The
plate had once been a
piece of
volcanic arc that split...
-
leopard frog (Lithobates lenca) is a
species of true frog
found in the
Chortis Highlands of
southwestern Honduras at
altitudes of 1560 to 2080 m. This...
