Central America
Guatemala
Petén Department

Río Azul

Río Azul is an archaeological site of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is the most important site in the Río Azul National Park in the of northern , close to the borders of and .
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: archaeological site in Guatemala
  • Also known as: “Rio Azul” and “Sitio Arqueológico Rio Azul”

Río Azul

Latitude
17.77768° or 17° 46′ 40″ north
Longitude
-89.28191° or 89° 16′ 55″ west
Elevation
115 metres (377 feet)
Open location code
769GQPH9+36
Open­Street­Map ID
way 487539406
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
11072876
Wiki­data ID
Q2098146
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Río Azul” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Río Azul (ciutat maia)”
  • Catalan: “Río Azul”
  • Chinese: “里奥阿苏尔”
  • Dutch: “Río Azul”
  • Esperanto: “Rio Azul”
  • German: “Rio Azul”
  • German: “Río Azul”
  • Indonesian: “Río Azul”
  • Japanese: “リオ・アスール”
  • Japanese: “リオ・アスル”
  • Spanish: “Rio Azul”
  • Spanish: “Río Azul”
  • Spanish: “Ruinas de Rio Azul”
  • Spanish: “Ruinas de Río Azul”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріо-Асуль”

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