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 34 metres (112 feet)
- …is also known as “Cenote Sagrado”
- Description: water-filled sinkhole at the Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza,
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chichen Itza and Gran Museo de Chichén Itzá.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piste and X-Calakoop.
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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.
- Basque: “Cenote Sagrado”
- Catalan: “Cenote sagrat de Chichén Itzá”
- Catalan: “Cenote sagrat”
- Cebuano: “Cenote Sagrado”
- Chinese: “神聖之井”
- Esperanto: “Sankta Cenoto”
- French: “Cenote sacré de Chichen Itza”
- German: “Cenote Sagrado”
- German: “Heilige Cenote”
- German: “Heiliger Brunnen von Chichén Itzá”
- Italian: “Cenote sacro”
- Macedonian: “Света сенота”
- Polish: “Święta cenote”
- Portuguese: “Cenote Sagrado”
- Russian: “Священный сенот”
- Slovenian: “Sveti cenote”
- Spanish: “Cenote sagrado de Chichen Itza”
- Spanish: “Cenote sagrado de Chichen Itzá”
- Spanish: “Cenote sagrado de Chichén Itza”
- Spanish: “Cenote sagrado de Chichén Itzá”
- Spanish: “Cenote sagrado”
- Swedish: “Cenote Sagrado”
- Ukrainian: “священний сенот”
- Ukrainian: “Священний сенот”
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Localities in the Area
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