Caracol (Cayo District, Belize)

Caracol is an extensive ancient Maya archaeological site located on the Vaca Plateau in the foothills of the Maya Mountains in Belize's Cayo District. Scholarly and reference sources describe Caracol as a large Classic Period political center that once covered roughly 200 square kilometres and supported a substantial population, making it one of the most important sites in the Maya Lowlands. The supplied materials place the site approximately 40 km south of Xunantunich and San Ignacio and about 15 km from the Macal River at an elevation near 500 m, but do not provide precise coordinates. The research notes and provided sources focus on archaeological, geographic, and demographic aspects of Caracol; they do not document any hauntings, apparitions, curses, ancestral spirits, or other paranormal phenomena connected to the Belize site. The term "caracol" also appears in unrelated modern contexts (for example, Caracol Televisión and Zapatista "caracol" sites), and one archived image documents a Zapatista mural at an "Oventik caracol," but that usage is political/cultural and is not presented in the sources as evidence of supernatural activity at the Belize archaeological site. No named supernatural entities, eyewitness accounts, or folkloric narratives tied to Caracol (Belize) are provided in the supplied material. Because the provided source set lacks ethnographic or folkloric material about local ghost stories or curses, any claims that Caracol is "rumored cursed" or associated with ancestral spirits are not substantiated by these sources and should be investigated with targeted local folklore, ethnography, or fieldwork for confirmation.