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Table 2 Soils Included in Each General Land Resource Type1
WELL-DRAINED
UPLANDS
(Table 2, continued) Pixoy mottled sandy loam (20b) RIVERINE-ASSOCIATED SWAMPS Pucte clay (55) Sibal peaty clay (58b) Sibal peaty loam (58c) CLOSED-DEPRESSION SEASONAL SWAMPS Chucum clay (56) SAVANNAS Jobo sand over sandy clay (21f) Felipe loamy sand (23) Sennis silt loam (41) Haciapina sandy loam (50) Puletan loamy sand (53) Puletan shallow loamy sand and gravelly sand (53a) Puletan sandy loam (53c) Puletan grey silty sandy loam (53e) Sibal peaty sandy silt and loamy sand (58) ESCARPMENTS Xunantunich rocky clay loam (60) _______________________________________________________
1Soil set names and set numbers (in parentheses) follow Wright et al. __1959.
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Table 3: Lands Resources of the Gallon Jug Region and the Hill and Lowland Subregions |
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Well-Drained
Uplands |
Slow-Drained
Lowlands |
Riverine
Swamps |
Closed
Swamps |
Savanna |
Escarpments |
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Gallon Jug Region |
42% |
36% |
8% |
6% |
4% |
4% |
Hill
Subregion |
72% |
13% |
4% |
4% |
0% |
7% |
Lowland
Subregion |
7% |
63% |
12% |
8% |
8% |
0% |
Table
4: Settlement Composition in the Core Area |
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| Tikal | Yaxha | Uaxactun | ||||
| Structures per Square km | 190 | 110 | 137 | |||
| Structures per Residential Unit__ | 2.8 | 2.4 | 2.4 | |||
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Figure 1: The Maya area. Figure 2: The Gallon Jug Region and the Rio Bravo Conservation Area. Figure 3: Land Resource proportions in Central Lowland Maya Areas Surrounding the Rio Bravo Conservation Area. Figure 4: Sketch Map of La Milpa. Figure 5: Sketch Map of Settlement adjacent to La Milpa. Figure 6: Sketch Map of Settlement in the Hills Area. |
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