Becan
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.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Aero85, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Becan
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: archaeological site in Campeche, Mexico
- Categories: archaeological site, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Calakmul, Campeche, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
18.5169° or 18° 31′ 1″ northLongitude
-89.467° or 89° 28′ 1″ westElevation
290 metres (951 feet)Open location code
76CGGG8M+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
way 27138057OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
3532325Wikidata ID
Q813784
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Becan” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Бекан”
- Chinese: “贝坎”
- Dutch: “Becan”
- French: “Becán”
- Georgian: “ბეკანი”
- German: “Becan”
- German: “Becán”
- Hungarian: “Becán”
- Indonesian: “Becan”
- Italian: “Becan”
- Italian: “Becán”
- Lithuanian: “Bekanas”
- Macedonian: “Бекан”
- Polish: “Becan”
- Portuguese: “Becan”
- Russian: “Бекан (Мексика)”
- Russian: “Бекан”
- Spanish: “Becan”
- Spanish: “Becán”
- Spanish: “Zona arqueológica de Becán”
- Ukrainian: “Бекан”
- “Becán”
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