
Cerros (which means hill in Spanish) sits on 53 acres by a cliff overlooking volo auto museum the Caribbean Ocean, a setting much like Tulum in Mexico. The community was at its height between 400 BC and AD 100. At that time the people there specialized first in fishing and then in the marine trade along the coast. Some archeologists believe that salt was an important trade item. As other cities became more prominent, Cerros lost power. Today, the ruins are showing serious erosion due to their proximity to the ocean.
Fortis, a Canadian firm (from Newfoundland) that owns Belize Electric Limited, has a contract with the Belize Government to build a dam seven miles down the Macal River from its confluence with the Raspaculo River in Chiquibul National Park. The Chalillo Project involves Fortis flooding a 5.5-square-mile parcel of land that could hold back 120 million cubic meters of water. The cost of the project would be an estimated US $60 million. This land is also part of the Vaca Plateau, an exceptional area that is home to numerous volo auto museum birds and is the nesting spot for the endangered scarlet macaw. The park also has the largest number of jaguars in all of Central America. Unexcavated Maya sites in the park are innumerable. For all these reasons, recreationists are drawn to the area.
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