Uaxactun
Uaxactún is in the Peten department of the Northern Lowlands of Guatemala. The most famous building at Uaxactun…Photo: Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Davidgermain, CC BY 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Uaxactun
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient sacred place of the Maya civilization, in present-day Guatemala
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Petén Department, Northern Lowlands, Guatemala, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
17.3913° or 17° 23' 29" northLongitude
-89.6295° or 89° 37' 46" westElevation
190 metres (623 feet)Open Location Code
769G99RC+G6OpenStreetMap ID
node 287280062OpenStreetMap Feature
historic=archaeological_siteGeoNames ID
3588074Wikidata ID
Q977738Uaxactun Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: واكساكتون
- Armenian: Ուաշակթուն
- Asturian: Uaxactún
- Bashkir: Уашактун
- Basque: Uaxactun
- Belarusian: Уашактун
- Catalan: Siaan Ca'an
- Catalan: Uaxactún
- Cebuano: Uaxactún
- Chinese: 乌克萨屯
- Chinese: 瓦沙克通
- Dutch: Uaxactun
- English: Uaxactún
- French: Uaxactun
- German: Uaxactún
- Hebrew: אואקסקטון
- Indonesian: Uaxactun
- Italian: Uaxactún
- Japanese: ウアクサクトゥン
- Japanese: ワシャクトゥン
- Lithuanian: Uašaktunas
- Macedonian: Уашактун
- Norwegian Bokmål: Uaxactún
- Polish: Uaxactún
- Portuguese: Uaxactun
- Russian: Вашактун
- Russian: Уашактун
- Spanish: Uaxactun
- Spanish: Uaxactún
- Swedish: Uaxactún
- Tatar: Уашактун
- Ukrainian: Уашактун
- Sitio Arqueológico Uaxactún
Other Places Named Uaxactun
In the Area
- UaxactúnVillage
- NakumHamlet, 34 km southeast
- Dos LagunasHamlet, 35 km north
- El PorvenirVillage, 37 km south
- La PasaditaVillage, 38 km west
- El CorozalVillage, 40 km southwest
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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 Uaxactun. Photo: Davidgermain, CC BY 3.0.