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The Cuyamel caves, located on the inland slopes of Mount Calentura have yielded numerous and varied articles which indicate human occupation of the area by at least the Early Pre-classic and into the Middle Pre-classic Period (around 1200-600B.C.). There, many clay vessels of monochrome brownish-red or gray and one of bi-chrome red-stripe on coffee-brown as well as more complex bottle forms which included fluting, have been found. Anthropomorphic effigies, double bottles, composite bottles and flat-bottomed open bowls have also been documented. Stone artifacts and black polished and excised cylinder vases have been found. Christopher Columbus, on August 14, 1502, on his fourth and last voyage to the New World, landed for the first time on the American mainland at the point of the Bay of Trujillo. It was there that he said the first mass ever on the American continent. After marveling at the beauty of the bay and its lagoon and mountains, Columbus continued southward down the Caribbean coast of Central America searching for a passage to the west. On the graveyard is the grave to find of William Walker How was executed in Trujillo. |
