Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Maya Site of Copan' has mentioned 'Valley' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| This ancient Maya city mirrors the beauty of the physical landscape in which it flourishedxe2x80x94a fertile, well-watered mountain valley in western Honduras at an elevation of 600 meters (2,400 feet) above mean sea level. | WIKI |
| It is in a fertile valley among foothills at 700 meters (2,300xc2xa0ft) above mean sea level. | WIKI |
| In the Preclassic period the floor of the Copxc3xa1n Valley was undulating, swampy and prone to seasonal flooding. | WIKI |
| In the Early Classic, the inhabitants flattened the valley floor and undertook construction projects to protect the city's architecture from the effects of flooding. | WIKI |
| [12] The greater Copxc3xa1n area consisting of the populated areas of the valley covered about a quarter of the size of the city of Tikal. | WIKI |
| Additionally, there was an estimated rural population of 3,000 to 4,000 in a 476-square-kilometer (184xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi) area of the Copxc3xa1n Valley, giving an estimated total population of 18,000 to 25,000 people in the valley during the Late Classic period. | WIKI |
| [16] The ceremonial center was long abandoned and the surrounding valley home to only a few farming hamlets at the time of the arrival of the Spanish in the 16thxc2xa0century. | WIKI |
| The fertile Copxc3xa1n River valley was long a site of agriculture before the first known stone architecture was built in the region about the 9thxc2xa0century BC. | WIKI |
| At the time of his rule, Copxc3xa1n was undergoing an unprecedented rise in population, with residential land use spreading to all available land in the entire Copxc3xa1n Valley. | WIKI |
| Archaeologists have recovered little evidence of activity for the first 26xc2xa0years of his reign, but in ADxc2xa0652 there was a sudden explosion of monument production, with two stelae being erected in the Great Plaza and a further four in important locations across the Copxc3xa1n Valley. | WIKI |
| It is thought that he was trying to stamp his authority throughout the whole valley after the end of some earlier restriction to his freedom to rule as he wished. | WIKI |
| [54] In the Postclassic period the valley was occupied by villagers who stole the stone from the monumental architecture of the city in order to build their simple house platforms. | WIKI |
| Due to the deforestation of the Copxc3xa1n valley, the Rosalila building was the last structure at the site to use such elaborate stucco decoration xe2x80x94 vast quantities of firewood could no longer be spared to reduce limestone to plaster. | WIKI |
| The site is functioned as the political, civil and religious centre of the Copan Valley. | UNESCO |
| The first evidence of population in the Copan Valley dates back to 1500 B.C., but the first Maya-Cholan immigration from the Guatemalan Highlands is dated around 100 A.D. | UNESCO |
| The Maya leader Yax Kuk Mo, coming from the area of Tikal (Petxc3xa9n), arrived in the Copan Valley in 427 A.D., and started a dynasty of 16 rulers that transformed Copan into one of the greatest Maya cities during the Classic Maya Period. | UNESCO |
| The Eastern Plaza rises a considerable height above the valley floor. | UNESCO |
| At the regional level, a Presidential Decree (1982) created the National Monument of Copan, covering a 30 km stretch of land that includes the Copan Valley where the World Heritage property is located, and that prescribes a special protection for all archaeological vestiges within the National Monument. | UNESCO |