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Santa Rita Corozal is a Maya city on the western shore of Chetumal Bay in northern Belize, identified with the Postclassic capital of Chactemal recorded in early Spanish accounts. The site was occupied continuously from approximately 1200 BCE through Spanish contact in the 16th century, with the principal architectural phase belonging to the Late Postclassic period (1350 to 1530 CE). Construction is of limestone with stucco facing. Diane Chase and Arlen Chase directed long-running excavations beginning in the 1970s, recovering polychrome murals on Structure 1 painted in the Mixteca-Puebla international style — among the few surviving examples of this Postclassic mural tradition in the Maya area. The site is partially overlapped by the modern town of Corozal, with mounds preserved in residential lots. Santa Rita's ruler Nachan Kan led the resistance to Spanish conquest in the 1530s.
The principal plaza buildings still stand, though much of the city plan now lies beneath modern streets and houses.