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Lacandon

Lacandon may refer to:

  • the Lacandon people, one of the contemporary Maya peoples
  • the Lakandon Ch'ol, a historic Maya people
  • the Lacandon language, the language spoken by the contemporary Lacandon people
  • the Lacandon Jungle, a Mexican rainforest

Usage examples of "lacandon".

Ruiz or her daughters had either named a particular Lacandon god or said gods.

The young Lacandon Maya coughed as the smoke followed him across the newly cleared field.

Xbalanque raised his fist in the air and chanted the Lacandon phrase over and over until every Indian in the camp joined him.

Alirio Antonio Arcila was poised to reap the violent fruit of ten years spent planting the seeds of discontent in the Lacandon jungle, the international Communist movement was no more.

The smells of the Lacandon jungle night were coming to the fore, among them the sharp tang of allspice and pine straw, and another odor that made him think of burnt corncobs.

Extinguisher again, erect, proud and unbowed by the cruel rigors of the Lacandon jungle.

As they picked their way, she taught him how to recognize the trees of the Lacandon rain forest, which was a weird conglomeration of semitropical vegetation coexisting with oak and pine trees.

Not the good clean air of the Lacandon jungle, where the falling rains cleansed everything, making it new again.

His future depended upon what transpired here in this place far from the Lacandon jungle.

He could tell by her diminutive stature and the shape of her eyes and cheekbones that she was one of the Lacandon, the descendants of the ancient Mayan kings who once ruled the land before the arrival of the conquistadores.