SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE WORLD GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL UPDATES: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheWorldgeographicch The Maya people constitute a diverse range of Native Americans in southern Mexico and northern Central America. The overarching term "Maya" is a collective designation to include the peoples of the region who share some degree of cultural and linguistic heritage; however, the term embraces many distinct populations, societies, and ethnic groups, who each have their own particular traditions, cultures, and historical identity. Mayan population Pre-Columbia is approximately 8,000,000. Today there are an estimated 7 million Maya living in this area at the start of the 21st century. Guatemala, southern Mexico and the Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, El Salvador, and western Honduras have managed to maintain substantial remnants of their ancient cultural heritage. Some are quite integrated into the majority hispanicized Mestizo cultures of the nations in which they reside, while others continue a more traditional, culturally distinct, life often speaking one of the Maya languages as a primary language have also been disputed by courts and religious scholars. Tags: history, nature, adventure, travel, animal world, animal planet, solar system, universe, planet earth, documentaries, The Mayan Tribe, The Mayan Tribe documentary, The Mayan Tribe Documentaries, The Mayan Tribe Documentaries 2014, The Mayan Tribe Documentaries new, 2014 The Mayan Tribe Documentaries,

• published: 08 Sep 2014
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