El Chal
El Chal is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Petén, located approximately 50 kilometres southeast of the departmental capital, Flores. Its name may derive from Itzaʼ chal, "shawl", or aj-chal ja, "clear water."…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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El Chal
Archaeological site
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El Chal is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site located in the upper San Juan River valley of the southeastern Petén Basin region, Guatemala. The site is situated in the municipality of El Chal, lying some 600 metres to the south of the municipal seat also called El Chal.
El Chal
- Categories: municipality of Guatemala and locality
- Location: Petén Department, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Latitude
16.6427° or 16° 38′ 34″ northLongitude
-89.6529° or 89° 39′ 10″ westPopulation
15,600Elevation
222 metres (728 feet)Open location code
768GJ8VW+3ROpenStreetMap ID
node 9208844832OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
9975229Wikidata ID
Q25185666
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“El Chal” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “El Chal”
- Cebuano: “Municipio de El Chal”
- Chinese: “埃爾查爾 (貝塔省)”
- Chinese: “埃爾查爾”
- French: “El Chal”
- Georgian: “ელ-ჩალი (პეტენი)”
- Georgian: “ელ-ჩალი”
- Low German: “Municipio El Chal”
- Spanish: “El Chal”
- Spanish: “Municipio de El Chal”
- Swedish: “El Chal”
- Swedish: “Municipio de El Chal”
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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 “El Chal”. Photo: Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.