Motul de San José
Motul de San José is an ancient Maya site located just north of Lake Petén Itzá in the Petén Basin region of the southern Maya lowlands. It is a few kilometres from the modern village of San José, in Guatemala's northern department of Petén.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: Ancient Maya site in northern Guatemala
- Also known as: “Motul de San Jose”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San José and San Andrés.
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.
San Andrés
Photo: Duglas ivan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Andrés is a municipality in the department of El Petén in Guatemala. The municipality is formed by the town of San Andrés, located on the north-western shore of Lake Petén Itzá, and 55 rural communities, with a total population of 20,295 people.
Motul de San José
- Categories: human settlement, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Petén Department, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Motul de San José” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Motul de San José”
- Cebuano: “Motul (arkiyolohiyang dapit)”
- Cebuano: “Motul”
- Chinese: “莫图尔-德圣何塞”
- Dutch: “Motul de San José”
- French: “Motul de San Jose”
- French: “Motul de San José”
- Hebrew: “מוטול דה סן חוסה”
- Indonesian: “Motul de San José”
- Italian: “Motul de San José”
- Japanese: “モトゥル・デ・サン・ホセ”
- Polish: “Motul de San José”
- Russian: “Мотуль-де-Сан-Хосе”
- Spanish: “Motul de San Jose”
- Spanish: “Motul de San José”
- Swedish: “Motul (fornlämning)”
- Swedish: “Motul”
- Thai: “โมตุลเดซานโฮเซ”
- Ukrainian: “Мотуль-де-Сан-Хосе”
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