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Caracol

Caracol is a large ancient Maya archaeological site, located in what is now the Cayo District of . It is situated approximately 40 kilometres south of , and the town of , and 15 km from the .
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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 (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”
  • 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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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 “Caracol”. Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.