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El Puente is a Maya city in western Honduras in the Florida Valley, 60 kilometres north of the major center of Copan. Occupation dates from approximately 600 to 800 CE, placing it in the Late Classic period as a regional satellite within the Copan kingdom's sphere of influence. The site contains over 200 structures of limestone and earth fill, with the principal ceremonial plaza dominated by Structure 1, a stepped pyramid 12 metres high. A Japanese-Honduran archaeological project led by Seiichi Nakamura conducted systematic excavation and consolidation in the 1980s and 1990s, opening the site as the Parque Arqueologico El Puente in 1994 — the second protected archaeological park in Honduras after Copan. The site sits at the southeastern frontier of Maya cultural presence and shows architectural and ceramic ties primarily to Copan rather than to the Peten centers further north. Structure 1 stands fully consolidated.
The carved stone stairway on its principal facade is preserved intact.