There were still Mayan groups running around the jungle when the Spanish arrived, as there are today, but Classic Mayan society was long gone by the time Europeans arrived. By about 600 years in fact. Your misconception may be due to the final scene in that recent movie (whose name escapes me at the moment) where the Mayan guy peers out of the trees towards the ocean and sees a Spanish ship on the horizon. Pure fiction. Wasn't that a Mel Gibson production?

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