Copán
Copán is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization in the Copán Department of western Honduras, not far from the border with Guatemala. It is one of the most important sites of the Maya civilization, which was not excavated until the 19th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 6,340 residents
- Description: maya archaeological site in western Honduras
- Also known as: “Copan Ruinas”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cabañas and Santa Rita.
Cabañas
Town
Cabañas is a municipality in the Honduran department of Copán. Cabañas is situated 7 km east of Copán.
Santa Rita
Town
Santa Rita is a municipality in the Honduran department of Copán. Santa Rita is situated 7 km northeast of Copán.
Copán
- Category: archaeological site
- Location: Copán Ruinas, Copán Department, Honduran Highlands, Honduras, Central America, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Waray—“Copán” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Copán”
- Arabic: “كوبان”
- Armenian: “Կոպան”
- Bashkir: “Копан”
- Basque: “Copán”
- Bavarian: “Copan”
- Belarusian: “Капан (горад мая)”
- Belarusian: “Капан”
- Breton: “Copan”
- Breton: “Copán”
- Bulgarian: “Копан”
- Catalan: “Copán”
- Cebuano: “Sitio Arqueológico Rastrojón”
- Chinese: “科潘”
- Croatian: “Copan”
- Croatian: “Copán”
- Czech: “Copán”
- Danish: “Copan”
- Danish: “Copán”
- Dutch: “Copan (Mayastad)”
- Dutch: “Copán”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوبان”
- Esperanto: “Copan”
- Esperanto: “Copán”
- Finnish: “Copan”
- Finnish: “Copán”
- French: “Copan”
- French: “Copán”
- Galician: “Copán”
- Georgian: “კოპანი”
- German: “Copán”
- Hebrew: “קופאן”
- Hebrew: “קופן”
- Hindi: “कोपान”
- Hungarian: “Copán”
- Indonesian: “Copán”
- Italian: “Copan”
- Italian: “Copán”
- Italian: “Copàn”
- Japanese: “コパン”
- Japanese: “コパンのマヤ遺跡”
- Japanese: “コパン遺跡”
- Korean: “코판”
- Latvian: “Kopana”
- Lithuanian: “Kopanas”
- Macedonian: “Копан”
- Maltese: “Copan”
- Maltese: “Copán”
- Nepali: “कोपन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Copán”
- Norwegian: “Copán”
- Persian: “کوپان”
- Polish: “Copan”
- Polish: “Copán”
- Portuguese: “Copán”
- Portuguese: “Sítio Maia de Copán”
- Russian: “Копан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Copan”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Copán”
- Slovak: “Copán”
- Slovenian: “Copán”
- Spanish: “Copán Ruinas”
- Spanish: “Copan”
- Spanish: “Copán”
- Spanish: “Oxwitik”
- Swedish: “Copan”
- Swedish: “Copán”
- Tatar: “Копан”
- Thai: “โกปัน”
- Tibetan: “ཁའོ་ཕན།”
- Turkish: “Copan”
- Turkish: “Copán”
- Ukrainian: “Копан”
- Vietnamese: “Copán”
- Waray (Philippines): “Copán (arkeolohikal nga lugar)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Copán”
- “Copán”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hotel Marina Copan and Museo Regional de Arqueología Maya.
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