El Mirador

El Mirador is a large pre-Columbian Middle and Late Preclassic Maya settlement, located in the north of the modern department of El Petén, . It is part of the Mirador- Karst Basin of northern Guatemala.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: pre-Columbian Maya settlement
  • Also known as: “Mirador” and “Sitio Arqueológico El Mirador”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pyramid of La Danta and Pirámide El Tigre.

Tomb
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is a tomb.

Tomb
Photo: Authenticmaya, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a tomb.

El Mirador

Latitude
17.7543° or 17° 45′ 16″ north
Longitude
-89.9137° or 89° 54′ 49″ west
Elevation
297 metres (974 feet)
Open location code
769GQ33P+PG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 157397230
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­forest
Geo­Names ID
3592548
Wiki­data ID
Q504904
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Satellite Map

Discover El Mirador from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“El Mirador” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الميرادور”
  • Asturian: “El Mirador”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Мірадор”
  • Catalan: “El Mirador”
  • Chinese: “米拉多尔遗址”
  • Chinese: “米拉多爾遺址”
  • Danish: “El Mirador”
  • Dutch: “El Mirador”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الميرادور”
  • Esperanto: “El Mirador”
  • Finnish: “El Mirador”
  • French: “El Mirador”
  • Galician: “El Mirador”
  • German: “El Mirador”
  • Hebrew: “אל מיראדור”
  • Hungarian: “El Mirador”
  • Indonesian: “El Mirador”
  • Italian: “El Mirador”
  • Japanese: “エル・ミラドール”
  • Japanese: “エル＝ミラドール”
  • Lithuanian: “El Miradoras”
  • Low German: “El Mirador”
  • Macedonian: “Ел Мирадор”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “El Mirador”
  • Norwegian: “El Mirador”
  • Polish: “El Mirador”
  • Portuguese: “El Mirador”
  • Russian: “Эль-Мирадор”
  • Spanish: “El Mirador”
  • Turkish: “El Mirador”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Мірадор”
  • Uzbek: “El Mirador”

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