Caracol

Caracol is a Maya archaeological site in the region of . It is a large site with many restored and documented structures, but is in a remote area near the Guatemala border.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: Maya city in Belize
  • Also known as: “Caracol (Belize)”, “Caracol (Maya)”, “Caracol (Mayastad)”, “Caracol, Belize”, “El caracol”, “Karakol (Belize)”, “Karakolis (majai)”, “Oxhuitza”, and “Караколь (Белиз)”

Caracol

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
way 28718695
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
3582462
Wiki­data ID
Q1035336
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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”
  • Esperanto: “Caracol”
  • French: “Caracol”
  • Galician: “El Caracol”
  • German: “Caracol”
  • Hebrew: “קאראקול”
  • Hungarian: “Caracol”
  • Indonesian: “Caracol”
  • Italian: “El Caracol”
  • Japanese: “カラコル”
  • Korean: “카라콜”
  • Lithuanian: “Karakolis (Belizas)”
  • Lithuanian: “Karakolis”
  • Macedonian: “Каракол”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Caracol”
  • Norwegian: “Caracol”
  • Polish: “Caracol”
  • Portuguese: “El Caracol”
  • Russian: “Караколь”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Caracol”
  • Spanish: “El Caracol”
  • Swahili: “Caracol”
  • Swedish: “Caracol”
  • Ukrainian: “Караколь”
  • “Caracol”

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