Nojpetén

Nojpetén was the capital city of the Itza Maya kingdom of Petén Itzá. It was located on an island in in the modern department of in northern .
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: Maya-state
  • Also known as: “Expeditie naar Tayasal”, “Expeditie van Tayasal”, “Noh Peten”, “Noh Petén”, “Nojpeten”, “Tah Itza”, “Tah Itzá”, and “Тайасаль”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Flores Island and Santa Barbara Islet.

Island
Photo: Javier Aroche, CC BY 2.0.
is a 13.3-hectare island located…

Islet
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is situated 2½ km southwest of Nojpetén.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Miguel and Flores.

is a small village on the north shore…

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is a town in Petén, .

Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small village on the north shore of Lago…

Nojpetén

Latitude
16.95° or 16° 57′ north
Longitude
-89.88333° or 89° 53′ west
Elevation
124 metres (407 feet)
Open location code
768GX428+2M
Geo­Names ID
3588488
Wiki­data ID
Q1577053
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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: “諾赫佩滕”
  • Chinese: “诺赫佩滕”
  • Dutch: “Tayasal”
  • Esperanto: “Tayasal”
  • French: “Tayasal”
  • German: “Tayasal”
  • Hungarian: “Nojpetén”
  • Indonesian: “Nojpetén”
  • Italian: “Nojpetén”
  • Japanese: “タヤサル”
  • Lithuanian: “Tajasalis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tayasal”
  • Portuguese: “Tayasal”
  • Russian: “Тайясаль”
  • Slovenian: “Tayasal”
  • Spanish: “Tayasal”
  • Swedish: “Tayasal”
  • Ukrainian: “Тайясаль”
  • Ukrainian: “Таясаль”

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