Chicanná
Chicanná was a Maya city that was built during the Classic period. The site was named after its most famous building, Structure II, which means "House of the Serpent Mouth" in Maya.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Vargatamas, Public domain.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: ancient Mayan town
- Also known as: “Chicanna” and “Zona arqueológica de Chicanná”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Becan.
Becan
Photo: Aero85, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Becan is a large archaeological site in Campeche, Mexico featuring some well preserved pyramids. Becan was a Mayan site best known for its fortifications: a moat and a wall surround the core city center, with pyramids and temples clustered in a tight enclave with a strong core nucleus of unusually high structures.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Xpujil.
Xpujil
Xpujil is a remote village in the state of Campeche, located at an important junction in the interior of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. It offers the only services on Mexico's Federal Route 186 in the interior of the Yucatán.
Chicanná
- Categories: archaeological site, Maya site in Mexico, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Calakmul, Campeche, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.50786° or 18° 30′ 28″ northLongitude
-89.48676° or 89° 29′ 12″ westElevation
286 metres (938 feet)Open location code
76CGGG57+47OpenStreetMap ID
way 27138066OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
11071656Wikidata ID
Q1072052
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Chicanná” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Чикана”
- Chinese: “奇坎納”
- Chinese: “奇坎纳”
- Dutch: “Chicanná”
- French: “Chicanná”
- Georgian: “ჩიკანა”
- German: “Chicanná”
- Hungarian: “Chicaná”
- Hungarian: “Chicanná”
- Indonesian: “Chicanná”
- Italian: “Chicanná”
- Macedonian: “Чикана”
- Polish: “Chicanná”
- Russian: “Чиканна”
- Spanish: “Chicana”
- Spanish: “Chicaná”
- Spanish: “Chicanna”
- Spanish: “Chicanná”
- Ukrainian: “Чиканна”
- “Chicanná”
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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 “Chicanná”. Photo: Vargatamas, Public domain.