Cerros is a Mayaarchaeological site in northern Belize that reached its apogee during the MesoamericanLate Preclassic. At its nader, it held a population of approximately 1,089 people[1]. The site is strategically located on a peninsula at the mouth of the New River where it empties into Chetumal Bay on the Caribbean coast. As such, the site had access to and served as an intermediary link between the coastal trade route that circumnavigated the Yucatán Peninsula and inland communities. The inhabitants of Cerros constructed an extensive canal system and utilized raised-field agriculture. ^ Scarborough 1991:176
