14.7670°N, 87.5670°W.
Los Naranjos is a long-occupied Mesoamerican site on the north shore of Lake Yojoa in central Honduras, with a sequence extending from roughly 1100 BCE through 1250 CE. The earliest phases show clear cultural ties to the Olmec horizon of Mexico's Gulf coast, including jade jewelry and ceramic forms imported or copied from Olmec sources, and a defensive moat-and-rampart system 1.5 kilometres long surrounds the central plaza group. The site contains earthen and stone-faced platform mounds, the largest reaching 18 metres in height, organized around plazas and a ballcourt. Doris Stone of the Middle American Research Institute led the first systematic survey in the 1950s, and Claude Baudez and Pierre Becquelin published the comprehensive French project results in the 1970s. Los Naranjos sits at the meeting point between the Mesoamerican high cultures and the Intermediate Area cultures of lower Central America.
The lake-edge mounds still rise above the surrounding pasture.