Kekchi Maya boys collecting "Yaxox" [in Mayan] [commonly known as ramón or breadnut to us] as Norman Hammond lectures students about the silviculture of these ram"n trees, hillside terracing for crop intensification and the occurance of locally quarried [unusual] green limestone used in the surrounding architecture.

Nim Li Punit is one of the smaller Maya sites [from the Maya Late Classic period, flourishing from the 5th century through the 8th century] well known for the large amount of stelae found there. Nim Li Punit inherited it's name from a carving on the longest of the site's twenty-six stelae, depicting a figure wearing a large headdress. In the Maya Kekchi language, Nim Li Punit means "the big hat".

Nim Li Punit lies approximately 5 kilometers off the Southern Highway, near the villages of Indian Creek and Golden Stream. Access to the site follows a fairly steep, hilly, dirt road bordered by tall cohune palms and towering trees draped with flowing vines...
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Nim Li Punit is known for containing a grouping of 25 stelae, one of these stands 9 meters and so far is the largest stele in Belize and one of the largest in the Mayan area! This largest stela bears the likeness of the site's namesake, former ruler Nim Li Punit, or "Big Hat."

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Oil workers originally discovered the site in 1976 and excavation began in 1983 by Richard Leventhal. During the 1983 excavation part of another stela, a royal tomb, and other artifacts were discovered.