El Perú
El Perú, is a pre-Columbian Maya archeological site occupied during the Preclassic and Classic cultural chronology periods. The site was the capital of a Maya city-state and is located near the banks of the San Pedro River in the Department of Petén of northern Guatemala.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in Guatemala
- Also known as: “El Peru” and “Waka‘”
El Perú
- Categories: Maya site in Guatemala and archaeological site
- Location: Petén Department, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“El Perú” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “El Perú (lloc arqueològic)”
- Catalan: “El Perú”
- Catalan: “Waka”
- Catalan: “Waká”
- Cebuano: “Área Arqueológica El Perú”
- Chinese: “瓦卡”
- Chinese: “秘魯”
- Dutch: “El Peru”
- Dutch: “El Perú”
- Dutch: “Waka‘”
- French: “El Perú”
- French: “Waka‘”
- German: “El Peru”
- German: “El Perú”
- German: “Waka‘”
- Hebrew: “אל פרו”
- Indonesian: “El Perú (situs Maya)”
- Indonesian: “El Peru”
- Indonesian: “El Perú”
- Indonesian: “Waka‘”
- Italian: “El Perú”
- Japanese: “エル・ペルー”
- Russian: “Эль-Перу”
- Slovak: “El Perú”
- Slovenian: “El Perú”
- Slovenian: “Waka‘”
- Spanish: “El Peru”
- Spanish: “El Perú”
- Swedish: “Área Arqueológica El Perú”
- Swedish: “Waka‘”
- Swedish: “Waka’”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Перу”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “El Perú”. Photo: Authenticmaya, CC BY-SA 2.5.