Palenque
Located in Chiapas, the Mayan ruined city of Palenque stands out as one of the most beautiful and tourist-friendly of the Mayan cities. It has well developed tourist infrastructure with easy accessibility and a spectacular setting on a mountain in the midst of a rainforest.Photo: Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Ulises00, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Temple of the Inscriptions
The Temple of the Inscriptions is the largest Mesoamerican stepped pyramid structure at the pre-Columbian Maya civilization site of Palenque, located in the modern-day state of Chiapas, Mexico.
Palenque
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: former city state in Central America in present-day southern Mexico
- Categories: archaeological site, tourism and historic site
- Location: Palenque, Chiapas, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
17.4841° or 17° 29' 3" northLongitude
-92.045° or 92° 2' 42" westElevation
147 metres (482 feet)Open Location Code
7699FXM4+J2OpenStreetMap ID
way 27638749OpenStreetMap Feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap Feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
3522162Wikidata ID
Q181427Palenque Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Palenque
- Arabic: Palenque
- Arabic: بالينكي
- Armenian: Պալենկե
- Basque: Palenque
- Belarusian: Паленке
- Breton: Palenque
- Bulgarian: Паленке
- Catalan: Palau del Governador
- Catalan: Palenque
- Catalan: Temple de les Inscripcions
- Catalan: Zona arqueològica de Palenque
- Chinese: 帕伦克
- Chinese: 帕伦克考古区
- Chinese: 帕倫克
- Croatian: Palenque
- Czech: Palenque
- Danish: Palenque
- Dutch: Palenque (Mayastad)
- Dutch: Palenque
- Egyptian Arabic: بالينكى
- English: Palenqué
- English: Ruins of Palenque
- Esperanto: Palenque
- Finnish: Palenque
- French: Palenque
- French: Ruines de Palenque
- Galician: Palenque, Chiapas
- Galician: Palenque
- Georgian: პალენკე
- German: B'aakal
- German: Palenque
- Greek: Παλένκε
- Hebrew: פלנקה
- Hindi: पलेंक
- Hungarian: Palenque
- Indonesian: Palenque
- Italian: parco nazionale Palenque
- Italian: parco nazionale di Palenque
- Japanese: パレンケ
- Kazakh: Паленке
- Korean: 팔렌케
- Korean: 팔렝케
- Latvian: Palenke
- Lithuanian: Palenkė
- Macedo-Romanian: Palenque
- Macedonian: Паленке
- Maltese: Palenque
- Maltese: Palenqué
- Mingrelian: პალენკე
- Norwegian: Palenque
- Norwegian Bokmål: Palenque
- Panjabi: ਪਾਲੇਂਕੇ
- Persian: پالنکه
- Polish: Palenque
- Polish: Palenqué
- Polish: Park Narodowy Palenque
- Portuguese: Cidade Pré-Hispânica e Parque Nacional de Palenque
- Portuguese: Palenque
- Romanian: Palenque
- Russian: Лакам-Ха
- Russian: Паленке
- Serbo-Croatian: Palenke
- Serbo-Croatian: Palenque
- Slovak: Palenque
- Slovenian: Palenque
- Spanish: B'aakal
- Spanish: Palenque
- Spanish: Ruinas de Palenque
- Spanish: Templo de las Inscripciones
- Spanish: Zona arqueologica de Palenque
- Spanish: Zona arqueológica de Palenque
- Swedish: Palenque
- Tagalog: Palenque
- Thai: ปาเลงเก
- Tibetan: ཕ་ལོན་ཁེ།
- Turkish: Palenque
- Ukrainian: Паленке
- Urdu: پالینکے
- Vietnamese: Thành phố thời tiền Colombo và Vườn quốc gia Palenque
- Waray (Philippines): Palenque
- Welsh: Palenque
- Palenque (zona arqueológica)
- Zona Arqueologica Palenque
Other Places Named Palenque
Localities in the Area
- El PanchánHamlet
- Palenque/TempTown, 7 km east
- Ignacio ZaragozaVillage, 8 km south
- PakalnaSuburb, 9 km northeast
- Colonia GonzálezHamlet, 10 km northeast
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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 Wikivoyage page Palenque. Photo: Ulises00, Public domain.