Nojpetén
Nojpetén was the capital city of the Itza Maya kingdom of Petén Itzá. It was located on an island in Lake Petén Itzá in the modern department of Petén in northern Guatemala.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Garin Fons, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: Maya-state
- Also known as: “Noh Petén”, “Nojpeten”, and “Tayasal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Flores Island and Santa Barbara Islet.
Flores Island
Island
Photo: Javier Aroche, CC BY 2.0.
Flores Island is a 13.3-hectare island located in Lake Petén Itzá, in the northern region of the Central American country of Guatemala. It belongs to the Department of Petén and hosts the city of Flores, which serves as the departmental capital alongside the neighboring town of Santa Elena de la Cruz.
Santa Barbara Islet
Islet
Photo: Edgouno, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Santa Barbara Islet is situated 2½ km southwest of Nojpetén.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Miguel and Flores.
San Miguel
San Miguel is a small village on the north shore of Lago Petén Itzá in the Petén department of the Northern Lowlands of Guatemala.Flores
Flores is a town in Petén, Guatemala. The town proper is an island on Lago Petén Itzá, connected to land by a causeway, on the other side of which lie the twin towns Santa Elena and San Benito.
San José
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
San José is a small village on the north shore of Lago Petén Itzá in the Petén department of the Northern Lowlands of Guatemala.
Nojpetén
- Categories: former settlement and archaeological site
- Location: Petén Department, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Nojpetén” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Таясал”
- Catalan: “Nojpetén”
- Cebuano: “Tayasal”
- Chinese: “塔亞薩爾”
- Chinese: “诺赫佩滕”
- Chinese: “諾赫佩滕”
- Dutch: “Expeditie naar Tayasal”
- Dutch: “Expeditie van Tayasal”
- Dutch: “Tayasal”
- Esperanto: “Tayasal”
- French: “Tayasal”
- German: “Noh Peten”
- German: “Noh Petén”
- German: “Tah Itza”
- German: “Tah Itzá”
- German: “Tayasal”
- Hungarian: “Nojpetén”
- Hungarian: “Tayasal”
- Indonesian: “Nojpetén”
- Italian: “Nojpetén”
- Italian: “Tah Itzá”
- Italian: “Tayasal”
- Japanese: “タヤサル”
- Lithuanian: “Tajasalis”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tayasal”
- Portuguese: “Tayasal”
- Russian: “Тайасаль”
- Russian: “Тайясаль”
- Slovenian: “Nojpetén”
- Slovenian: “Tayasal”
- Spanish: “Tayasal”
- Swedish: “Tayasal”
- Ukrainian: “Тайясаль”
- Ukrainian: “Таясаль”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Nojpetén”. Photo: Garin Fons, CC BY 2.0.