In October 2024 it was announced that a huge city, including pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and amphitheatres, which had been nameddiscovered "Valeriana",underground hadnear been discovered undergroundXpujil, using [[lidar]], near Xpujil.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmznzkly3go</ref> <ref>{{cite web |title=Running out of empty space: environmental lidar and the crowded ancient landscape of Campeche, Mexico | Antiquity | Cambridge Core |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/running-out-of-empty-space-environmental-lidar-and-the-crowded-ancient-landscape-of-campeche-mexico/FFDB435047017853F26CFC5D8804B08Dhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/running-out-of-empty-space-environmental-lidar-and-the-crowded-ancient-landscape-of-campeche-mexico/FFDB435047017853F26CFC5D8804B08D |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=30 October 2024}}</ref> ItThe wasdiscovered named it "Valeriana", after a nearby lake, "Laguna La Valeriana", whosethe dry bed of which had been used by drug smugglers as an airstrip.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Eran dos narcoaeródromos |date=29 June 2019 |publisher=Por Esto Online |language=es |url=https://www.poresto.net/quintana-roo/2019/6/29/eran-dos-narcoaerodromos.html}}</ref>
