Central America
Guatemala
Petén Department

Altar de Sacrificios

Altar de Sacrificios is a ceremonial center and archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, situated near the confluence of the and Salinas Rivers, in the present-day department of Petén, .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: archaeological site in Petén Department, Guatemala
  • Also known as: “Altar de Los Sacrificios”

Altar de Sacrificios

Latitude
16.47942° or 16° 28′ 46″ north
Longitude
-90.52954° or 90° 31′ 46″ west
Elevation
111 metres (364 feet)
Open location code
768FFFHC+Q5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 346242096
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
3599774
Wiki­data ID
Q2303546
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Altar de Sacrificios” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Altar de los Sacrificios”
  • Catalan: “Altar de Sacrificios”
  • Chinese: “献祭者祭坛遗址”
  • Chinese: “獻祭者祭壇遺址”
  • Dutch: “Altar de Sacrificios”
  • French: “Altar de Sacrificios”
  • German: “Altar de Sacrificios”
  • Italian: “Altar de Sacrificios”
  • Japanese: “アルタール・デ・サクリフィシオス”
  • Japanese: “アルタル・デ・サクリフィシオス”
  • Macedonian: “Алтар де Сакрифисиос”
  • Polish: “Altar de Sacrificios”
  • Portuguese: “Altar de Sacrificios”
  • Portuguese: “Altar de Sacrifícios”
  • Spanish: “Altar de los Sacrificios”
  • Spanish: “Altar de Sacrificios”
  • Spanish: “El Altar de Los Sacrificios”
  • Ukrainian: “Алтар-де-Сакрифісіос”
  • “Altar de los Sacrificios”
  • “Altar de Sacrificios”

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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 “Altar de Sacrificios”. Photo: Siyajkak, CC BY-SA 3.0.