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Jaina Island

Jaina Island is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site and artificial island in the present-day Mexican state of . A small limestone island on the 's coast with only a tidal inlet separating it from the mainland, Jaina served as an elite Maya burial site, and is notable for the high number of fine ceramic figurines excavated there.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: island
  • Also known as: “Isla Jaina” and “Zona Arqueológica de Jaina”

Jaina Island

Latitude
20.20881° or 20° 12′ 32″ north
Longitude
-90.48579° or 90° 29′ 9″ west
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
76GF6G57+GM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 27036905
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
3526629
Wiki­data ID
Q283573
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Satellite Map

Discover Jaina Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Jaina Island” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Illa de Jaina”
  • Cebuano: “Isla Jaina”
  • Chinese: “哈伊纳岛”
  • Dutch: “Jaina Island”
  • French: “île de Jaina”
  • French: “Île de Jaina”
  • German: “Jaina”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Jaina”
  • Italian: “Jaina”
  • Japanese: “ハイナ島”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jainaøya”
  • Norwegian: “Jainaøya”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Jaina”
  • Russian: “Хайна”
  • Spanish: “isla de Jaina”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Jaina”
  • Spanish: “Jaina”
  • Swedish: “Isla Jaina”
  • Ukrainian: “Хайна”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Jaina Island”. Photo: Madman2001, CC BY 2.5.