Dos Pilas
Dos Pilas is a Pre-Columbian site of the Maya civilization located in what is now the department of Petén, Guatemala. It dates to the Late Classic Period, and was founded by an offshoot of the dynasty of the great city of Tikal in AD 629 in order to control trade routes in the Petexbatún region, particularly the Pasión River.
- Archaeological site
- …lies at an elevation of around 180 metres (570 feet)
- …is also known as “Sitio Arqueologico Dos Pilas”
- Description: human settlement
- Neighbors: Aguateca
- Categories
- Location
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Latitude
16.4513° or 16° 27′ 5″ north
Longitude
-90.2724° or 90° 16′ 21″ west
Open location code
768FFP2H+G2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Ukrainian—“Dos Pilas” goes by many names.
ডস পিলাসBengali
Dos PilasCatalan
Sitio Arqueológico Dos PilasCebuano
多斯皮拉斯Chinese
Dos PilasDutch
Dos PilasEsperanto
דוס פילאסHebrew
Dos PilasHungarian
Dos PilasIndonesian
Dos PilasItalian
ドス・ピラスJapanese
도스 필라스Korean
Dos PilasasLithuanian
Dos PilasPolish
Дос-ПиласRussian
Dos PilasSerbo-Croatian
Sitio Arqueológico Dos PilasSwedish
Дос-ПіласUkrainian
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