Guatemala- land of the Mayans and jade
January 22nd 2017 Geo: 13.9154, -90.7993Guatemala was the heart of the Mayan world. They built their huge temples in the north and collected jade from the south where the Pacific and Caribbean tectonic plates meet resulting in frequent earthquakes which throw up the jade from lower in the earths crust. There are also 33 volcanoes in the country several of them still active. The Spanish came along and colonised th
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