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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- southernmost extremes extend beyond this crustal fragment into the neighbouring Chortis Block of the Caribbean Plate. The Region notably houses the active Motagua–Polochic...
- 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...
- The Spanish conquest of Honduras was a 16th-century conflict during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in which the territory that now comprises...
- 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...
- show the Maya and Chortis blocks originating in the Gulf of Mexico or [show the] Maya [block originating] in the Gulf and [the] Chortis [block elsewhere]...
- Popol Vuh. 1949. Algunos characteres psicológicos de los Chortís – Honduras. 1949. Los Chortís ante el problema Maya: historia de las culturas indígenas...