Caracol
Caracol is a Maya archaeological site in the Cayo region of Belize. It is a large site with many restored and documented structures, but is in a remote area near the Guatemala border.
Caracol
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Maya city in Belize
- Categories: archaeological site, Maya site in Belize, protected area, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Cayo, Belize, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
16.7612° or 16° 45′ 40″ north
Longitude
-89.1172° or 89° 7′ 2″ west
Elevation
1,749 feet (533 metres)
Open location code
768GQV6M+F4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bishnupriya to Ukrainian—“Caracol” goes by many names.
- Bishnupriya: “কারাকোল”
- Catalan: “El Caracol (Belize)”
- Catalan: “El Caracol”
- Cebuano: “Caracol”
- Chinese: “卡拉科尔 (玛雅)”
- Chinese: “卡拉科尔”
- Chinese: “卡拉科爾”
- Croatian: “Caracol”
- Dutch: “Caracol (Mayastad)”
- Dutch: “Caracol”
- Esperanto: “Caracol”
- French: “Caracol, Belize”
- French: “Caracol”
- French: “El Caracol”
- Galician: “El Caracol”
- German: “Caracol”
- German: “Oxhuitza”
- Hebrew: “קאראקול”
- Hungarian: “Caracol”
- Indonesian: “Caracol”
- Italian: “El Caracol”
- Japanese: “カラコル”
- Korean: “카라콜”
- Lithuanian: “Karakolis (Belizas)”
- Lithuanian: “Karakolis (majai)”
- Lithuanian: “Karakolis”
- Macedonian: “Каракол”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Caracol”
- Norwegian: “Caracol”
- Polish: “Caracol”
- Portuguese: “El caracol”
- Portuguese: “El Caracol”
- Russian: “Караколь (Белиз)”
- Russian: “Караколь”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Caracol (Belize)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Caracol”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karakol (Belize)”
- Spanish: “Caracol (Maya)”
- Spanish: “El Caracol”
- Swahili: “Caracol”
- Swedish: “Caracol”
- Ukrainian: “Караколь”
- “Caracol”
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