Sacred Cenote
The Sacred Cenote is a water-filled sinkhole in limestone at the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza, in the northern Yucatán Peninsula.
- Sinkhole
- …lies at an elevation of around 30 metres (110 feet)
- …is also known as “Cenote Sagrado”
- Description: water-filled sinkhole at the Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza,
Places of Interest Nearby
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Gran Museo de Chichén Itzá
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piste and X-Calakoop.
Piste
Pisté is a village in Tinum Municipality in the center of Yucatán State, Mexico.
3 km northwest of Sacred Cenote
Sacred Cenote
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Latitude
20.67985° or 20° 40′ 48″ north
Longitude
-88.56822° or 88° 34′ 6″ west
Open location code
76GHMCHJ+WP
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Sacred Cenote” goes by many names.
Cenote SagradoBasque
Cenote sagratCatalan
Cenote sagrat de Chichén ItzáCatalan
Cenote SagradoCebuano
神聖之井Chinese
Sankta CenotoEsperanto
Cenote sacroItalian
Света сенотаMacedonian
Święta cenotePolish
Священный сенотRussian
Sveti cenoteSlovenian
Cenote SagradoSwedish
Священний сенотUkrainian
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Localities in the Area
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