Caracol
Caracol is a large ancient Maya archaeological site, located in what is now the Cayo District, of Belize. It is situated approximately 40 kilometres south of Xunantunich, and the town of San Ignacio, and 15 km from the Macal River.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Caracol
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Maya city in Belize
- Categories: archaeological site, tourism and historic site
- Location: Cayo, Belize, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
16.7612° or 16° 45' 40" northLongitude
-89.1172° or 89° 7' 2" westElevation
533 metres (1,749 feet)Open Location Code
768GQV6M+F4OpenStreetMap ID
way 28718695OpenStreetMap Feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap Feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
3582462Wikidata ID
Q1035336Caracol Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Bishnupriya: কারাকোল
- Catalan: El Caracol (Belize)
- Catalan: El Caracol
- Cebuano: Caracol
- Chinese: 卡拉科尔 (玛雅)
- Chinese: 卡拉科尔
- Chinese: 卡拉科爾
- Croatian: Caracol
- Dutch: Caracol (Mayastad)
- Dutch: Caracol
- Esperanto: Caracol
- French: Caracol
- French: Caracol, Belize
- French: El Caracol
- Galician: El Caracol
- German: Caracol
- German: Oxhuitza
- Hebrew: קאראקול
- Indonesian: Caracol
- Italian: El Caracol
- Japanese: カラコル
- Lithuanian: Karakolis (Belizas)
- Lithuanian: Karakolis (majai)
- Lithuanian: Karakolis
- Macedonian: Каракол
- Norwegian: Caracol
- Norwegian Bokmål: Caracol
- Polish: Caracol
- Portuguese: El Caracol
- Portuguese: El caracol
- Russian: Караколь (Белиз)
- Russian: Караколь
- Serbo-Croatian: Caracol (Belize)
- Serbo-Croatian: Caracol
- Serbo-Croatian: Karakol (Belize)
- Spanish: Caracol (Maya)
- Spanish: El Caracol
- Swahili: Caracol
- Swedish: Caracol
- Ukrainian: Караколь
Other Places Named Caracol
In the Area
Caracol is situated close to the localities Cowboy Camp and Chapayal.
- CaracolLocality
- Round Hole BankLocality, 6 km south
- RetiroLocality, 6 km southwest
- Cohune RidgeLocality, 8 km northeast
- CebadaLocality, 11 km south
- Las Flores de ChiquibulVillage, 12 km west
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Caracol. Photo: Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.