Dzibanche
Dzibanche is a Mayan archaeological site in the coastal state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is a large site that spawned the Kaan Dynasty, which for a time ruled large areas of the Yucatan Peninsula, including its capital city, Calakmul.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Patytc, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Dominant Maya city of the Early Classic period and capital of the Kaan kingdom
- Also known as: “Dzibanché”, “Kaanu’l”, “Tzibanche”, and “Zona arqueológica de Dzibanché”
Dzibanche
- Categories: archaeological site, Maya site in Mexico, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Othón P. Blanco, Quintana Roo, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
18.6395° or 18° 38′ 22″ northLongitude
-88.759° or 88° 45′ 32″ westElevation
100 metres (328 feet)Open location code
76CHJ6QR+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
way 27140739OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
11072893Wikidata ID
Q847614
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Dzibanche” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Dzibanche”
- French: “Dzibanché”
- German: “Dzibanche”
- Hebrew: “דסיבנצ’ה”
- Hungarian: “Dzibanche”
- Hungarian: “Dzibanché”
- Italian: “Dzibanché”
- Italian: “Dzinbanché”
- Japanese: “ツィバンチェ”
- Macedonian: “Ѕибанче”
- Polish: “Dzibanche”
- Russian: “Цибанче”
- Spanish: “Dzibanche”
- Spanish: “Dzibanché”
- Spanish: “Kaanu’l”
- Spanish: “Tzibanche”
- Ukrainian: “Цибанче”
- “Dzibanche”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Dzibanche”. Photo: Patytc, CC BY-SA 4.0.