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 El Rey archaeological site
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 Evidence of human occupation in the Hotel Zone spans the Late Preclassic (300 B.C. to A.D. 100) to the Post-Classic (A.D. 1200-1550) periods of Mayan history. Inhabitants of the Hotel Zone’s only restored site – El Rey – lived off both the land and sea: fishing, collecting salt, growing corn and cotton, bee keeping and harvesting trees for copal. The Post-Classic period corresponds to the culture’s maritime trading heyday, and Cancún was one of the many ports of call which linked the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Honduras.
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