Yucatán & the South
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Tinum Municipality

Chichen Itza

Chichén Itzá is the largest of the archaeological cities of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the of . It is one of Mexico's most visited tourist destinations.
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  • Type: Nature reserve
  • Description: pre-Columbian Maya city in Mexico
  • Also known as: “Chichén Itzá”, “Chichen-Itza”, “Chichén-Itzá”, and “pre-Columbian city”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sacred Cenote and Gran Museo de Chichén Itzá.

Photo: Anagoria, CC BY 3.0.
The is a water-filled in limestone at the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza, in the northern .

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0.
The Great Museum of Chichén Itzá is an archaeological museum located near the town of Pisté, in the municipality of Tinum, , Mexico. Inaugurated on February 28, 2024, the museum houses a collection of over 1,000 pieces, including 400 original artifacts…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pisté.

Town
Photo: GiorgioGaleotti, CC BY 4.0.
is a village in in the center of Yucatán State, . It is best known for the Mayan archaeological site Chichen Itza and the cenote Ik Kil.

Chichen Itza

Latitude
20.6832° or 20° 40′ 59″ north
Longitude
-88.5691° or 88° 34′ 9″ west
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
IATA airport code
CZA
Open location code
76GHMCMJ+78
Open­Street­Map ID
way 49475802
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­nature_reserve
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
3530977
Wiki­data ID
Q5859
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Chichen Itza” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Albanian: “Çiçen Ica”
  • Amharic: “ቺቺን ኢዛ”
  • Arabic: “تشيتشن إيتزا”
  • Armenian: “Չիչեն Իցա”
  • Asturian: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çiçen-İsta”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çiçen-İtsa”
  • Bashkir: “Чичен-Ица”
  • Basque: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Belarusian: “Чычэн-Іца”
  • Bengali: “চিচেন ইতজা”
  • Bengali: “চিচেন ইৎজা”
  • Bosnian: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Breton: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Bulgarian: “Чичен Ица”
  • Catalan: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Chinese: “奇琴伊察”
  • Croatian: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Czech: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Danish: “Chichen Itza”
  • Dhivehi: “ޗީޗެން އީޓްސާ”
  • Dotyali: “चिचेन इट्जा”
  • Dutch: “Chichen Itza”
  • Dutch: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشيتشن ايتزا”
  • Esperanto: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉiĉen Ica”
  • Estonian: “Chichen Itza”
  • Finnish: “Chichen Itza”
  • Finnish: “Chichén Itzá”
  • French: “Chichén Itzá”
  • French: “Chichen-Itza”
  • Galician: “Chichen Itzá”
  • Galician: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Georgian: “ჩიჩენ-იცა”
  • German: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Greek: “Τσιτσέν Ιτζά”
  • Guarani: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Gujarati: “ચિચેન ઇત્ઝા”
  • Hebrew: “צ’יצ’ן איצה”
  • Hindi: “चीचेन इट्ज़ा”
  • Hungarian: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Ido: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Indonesian: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Interlingua: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Irish: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Italian: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Japanese: “チチェン・イツァー”
  • Japanese: “チチェン・イッツァ”
  • Japanese: “チチェン・イッツア”
  • Javanese: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಚೆನಿಟ್ಜ್”
  • Kazakh: “Чичен-Ица”
  • Korean: “치첸이트사”
  • Kotava: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Kurdish: “Chichen Itza”
  • Latin: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Latvian: “Čičenica”
  • Lithuanian: “Čičen Ica”
  • Low German: “Chichen Itza”
  • Macedonian: “Чичен Ица”
  • Maithili: “चिचेन इट्जा”
  • Malay: “Chichen Itza”
  • Malayalam: “ചീച്ചൻ ഇറ്റ്സ”
  • Maltese: “Chichen Itza”
  • Maltese: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Marathi: “चिचेन इत्सा”
  • Mazanderani: “چیچن ایتزا”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩიჩენ-იცა”
  • Mongolian: “Чичен Ица”
  • Nepali: “चिचेन इट्जा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chichen Itza”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chichen Itza”
  • Norwegian: “Chichen Itza”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chichén Itzá”
  • Persian: “چیچن ایتزا”
  • Polish: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Portuguese: “Chichen Itza”
  • Portuguese: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Portuguese: “Chichén-Itzá”
  • Pushto: “چیچن ایتزا”
  • Quechua: “Chichen Itza”
  • Romanian: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Russian: “Чичен-Ица”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Serbian: “Чичен Ица”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chichen Itza”
  • Slovak: “Chichen Itza”
  • Slovak: “Chichen Itzá”
  • Slovenian: “Chichen Itza”
  • Spanish: “Chichen Itza”
  • Spanish: “Chichen Itzá”
  • Spanish: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Spanish: “La gran estrella”
  • Spanish: “Ruinas Chichén-Itzá”
  • Swedish: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Tagalog: “Chichen Itza”
  • Tamil: “சிச்சென் இட்சா”
  • Tatar: “Чичен-Ица”
  • Telugu: “చిచేన్ ఇట్జా”
  • Thai: “ชิเชนอิตซา”
  • Turkish: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Ukrainian: “Чичен-Іца”
  • Ukrainian: “Чічен-Іца”
  • Urdu: “چیچن ایتزا”
  • Uzbek: “Chichen-itsa”
  • Vietnamese: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu di tích Chichén Itzá”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chichen Itza”
  • Welsh: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Western Frisian: “Chichén Itzá”
  • Wu Chinese: “奇琴伊察”
  • Yue Chinese: “奇琴伊察”
  • Zhuang: “Gizginzyihcaz”
  • “Chichén Itzá”

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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 “Chichen Itza”. Photo: Javier Losa, CC BY 2.0.