Tikal
Tikal is a large archaeological site in the Guatemalan department of Petén. During the Classic Period it was one of the largest and most important of the Mayan cities.Photo: Shark, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Temple I
Ruins
Photo: Zigomar, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Tikal Temple I is the designation given to one of the major structures at Tikal, one of the largest cities and archaeological sites of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Mesoamerica.
Central Acropolis
Park
The Central Acropolis of the ancient Maya city of Tikal is an architectural complex located immediately to the south of the Great Plaza.
North Acropolis
Park
The North Acropolis of the ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala is an architectural complex that served as a royal necropolis and was a centre for funerary activity for over 1300 years.
Tikal
- Type: Evergreen forest
- Description: ruins of major ancient Maya city
- Category: archaeological site
- Location: Flores, Petén Department, Northern Lowlands, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Latitude
17.2208° or 17° 13' 15" northLongitude
-89.6223° or 89° 37' 20" westPopulation
240Elevation
240 metres (787 feet)IATA airport code
TKMUnited Nations Location Code
GT TKMOpen Location Code
769G69CH+83OpenStreetMap ID
way 38321864GeoNames ID
3588369Wikidata ID
Q181172Tikal Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Tikal
- Albanian: Tikal
- Arabic: Tikal
- Arabic: تيكال
- Armenian: Տիկալ
- Azerbaijani: Tikal
- Bashkir: Тикаль
- Basque: Tikal
- Bavarian: Tikal
- Belarusian: Тыкаль
- Bengali: টিকাল
- Bengali: তিকাল
- Breton: Tikal
- Bulgarian: Тикал
- Burmese: တီကားလ်
- Catalan: Tikal
- Cebuano: Tikal
- Chinese: Tikal
- Chinese: 堤卡爾
- Chinese: 提卡
- Chinese: 提卡尔
- Chinese: 蒂卡尔
- Chinese: 蒂卡尔国家公园
- Chinese: 蒂卡爾
- Croatian: Tikal
- Czech: Tikal
- Danish: Tikal
- Dutch: Tikal (stad)
- Dutch: Tikal
- Egyptian Arabic: تيكال
- English: Mutal
- English: Mutul
- English: Yax Mutul
- Esperanto: Tikal
- Finnish: Tikal
- French: Tikal
- Galician: Tikal
- Georgian: ტიკალი
- German: Mutal
- German: Tikal
- Greek: Τικάλ
- Hebrew: טיקאל
- Hindi: टीकाल
- Hungarian: Tikal
- Indonesian: Tikal
- Italian: Parco nazionale di Tikal
- Italian: Tikal
- Japanese: ティカル
- Japanese: ティカル国立公園
- Korean: 티칼
- Latvian: Tikala
- Lithuanian: Tikal
- Lithuanian: Tikalas
- Lithuanian: Tikalis
- Macedonian: Тикал
- Malayalam: Tikal
- Malayalam: ടികാൽ
- Maltese: Tikal
- Maltese: Yax Mutul
- Min Nan Chinese: Tikal
- Nepali: टिकाल
- Norwegian: Tikal
- Norwegian Bokmål: Tik'al
- Norwegian Bokmål: Tikal
- Norwegian Bokmål: Tikal nasjonalpark
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Tikal
- Occitan (post 1500): Tikal
- Persian: تیکال
- Polish: Tikal
- Polish: Tikál
- Portuguese: Parque nacional de tikal
- Portuguese: Tikal
- Romanian: Tikal
- Russian: Национальный парк Тикаль
- Russian: Тикаль
- Scots: Tikal
- Serbian: Tikal
- Serbian: Тикал
- Serbo-Croatian: Tik'al
- Serbo-Croatian: Tikal
- Slovak: Tikal
- Spanish: Mutal
- Spanish: Mutul
- Spanish: Tikal
- Spanish: Yax Mutul
- Swedish: Tikal
- Swedish: Tikal nationalpark
- Thai: ติกัล
- Thai: ตีกัล
- Thai: อุทยานแห่งชาติตีกัล
- Turkish: Tikal
- Ukrainian: Національний парк Тікаль
- Ukrainian: Тікаль
- Uzbek: Tikal
- Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Tikal
- Waray (Philippines): Tikal
- Welsh: Tikal
- Wu Chinese: 蒂卡尔
- तिकाल
Other Places Named Tikal
In the Area
Tikal is situated close to the villages Zocotzal and El Porvenir.
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