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Yarumela is an early Mesoamerican center in the Comayagua Valley of central Honduras, occupied principally between approximately 1000 BCE and 250 CE during the Middle and Late Preclassic periods. The site contains a series of large earthen and stone platform mounds, the largest of which reaches 19 metres in height — the tallest Preclassic structure known from Honduras. Construction combined stone facing over a packed earth core. Excavations by William Duncan Strong, Alfred Kidder II, and Drexel Paul in the late 1930s and renewed work by Boyd Dixon and others in the 1980s and 1990s identified jade ornaments, obsidian imported from Guatemalan highland sources, and ceramic forms tied to the contemporary Olmec sphere of Mexico's Gulf coast. Yarumela was a regional center on the cultural frontier between Mesoamerica and lower Central America, with broad trade connections in both directions.
The principal mound still rises above the modern agricultural fields of the Comayagua Valley floor.