Central America
Guatemala
Petén Department

Yaxha

Yaxha is a Mesoamerican archaeological site in the northeast of the Petén Basin in modern-day . 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.
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Yaxha

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
way 28718477
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6941831
Wiki­data ID
Q1540906
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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”
  • Spanish: “Yaxha”
  • Spanish: “Yaxhá”
  • Tatar: “Йашха”
  • Ukrainian: “Йашха”
  • Ukrainian: “Яшха”
  • “Yaxhá”

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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 “Yaxha”. Photo: Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.