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Wajxaklajun
Wajxaklajun (pronounced ) (also known as Yolk'u, El Calvario, Carvao, and Curvao) is a ruin of the ancient Maya civilization situated adjacent to the modern town of San Mateo Ixtatán, in the Huehuetenango Department of Guatemala. Wajxaklajun is considered to be the most important archaeological site in the San Mateo Ixtatán area. The site has been dated to the Classic period (c. 250–900 AD).〔Wölfel and Frühsorge 2008, p.88.〕 The Chuj Maya consider the city to have been built by their ancestors. The site has similarities with other nearby highland Maya ruins; it is unusual for the presence of a number of stelae, a feature more associated with lowland sites during the Classic period, probably indicating some level of exchange with lowland cites.
==Etymology==
''Wajxaklajun'' means "eighteen" in the Chuj language;〔Wölfel and Frühsorge 2008, p. 88. Straffi 2013, p. 257n22.〕 this has been interpreted as deriving from the site originally consisting of eighteen mounds. This is a modern interpretation however, and it is possible that the name originally derived from a Maya calendrical name.〔Wölfel and Frühsorge 2008, p.89.〕 A longer form of the name has been recorded as Chonjab' Tepan Wajxaklajun; this translates as "town and temple eighteen",〔Straffi 2013, p. 257n22.〕 from ''chonhap "town",〔Hopkins 2012, p. 63.〕 and ''tepan'' "church".〔Hopkins 2012, p. 312.〕 Alternative names for the site include Yolk'u (meaning "in the sun") and El Calvario, sometimes contracted to Carvao,〔 or Curvao.〔MINEDUC 2001, p. 12.〕 At the time of the Spanish conquest of Guatemala, Wajxaklajun was given the Nahuatl name ''Ystapalan'' (meaning "place of salt"); this was later modified to ''Ystatlan'' ("abundance of salt" in Nahuatl).〔Limón Aguirre 2008, p. 10.〕
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