Yaxha
Yaxha is a Mesoamerican archaeological site in the northeast of the Petén Basin in modern-day Guatemala. As a ceremonial centre of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, Yaxha was the third largest city in the region and experienced its maximum power during the Early Classic period.Yaxha
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: archaeological site
- Categories: archaeological site, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Petén Department, Guatemala, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
17.07471° or 17° 4′ 29″ north
Longitude
-89.40114° or 89° 24′ 4″ west
Elevation
259 metres (850 feet)
Open location code
769G3HFX+VG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Bashkir to Ukrainian—“Yaxha” goes by many names.
- Bashkir: “Йашха”
- Catalan: “Yax-ha”
- Catalan: “Yax-há”
- Catalan: “Yaxha”
- Catalan: “Yaxhá”
- Chinese: “亚什阿”
- Chinese: “亞什阿”
- Chinese: “亞甚阿”
- Dutch: “Yaxha”
- Esperanto: “Yaxhá”
- French: “Yaxha”
- German: “Yaxha”
- Indonesian: “Yaxhá”
- Italian: “Yaxhá”
- Japanese: “ヤシュハ”
- Lithuanian: “Jašha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yaxha”
- Norwegian: “Yaxha”
- Polish: “Yaxha”
- Russian: “Йашха”
- Slovenian: “Yaxha”
- Spanish: “Yaxha”
- Spanish: “Yaxhá”
- Tatar: “Йашха”
- Ukrainian: “Йашха”
- Ukrainian: “Яшха”
- “Yaxhá”
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