El Tajin
El Tajin is in the state of Veracruz in Mexico. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. El Tajin, Totonac for 'thunder' or 'lightning', is a group of sacred buildings where ceremonies and religious sporting events were held.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Frank C. Müller, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: JuanRamos 1978, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: archaeological site in Mexico
- Also known as: “El Tajín”, “Tajín Veracruz”, and “Zona Arqueológica ‘El Tajín’”
El Tajin
- Categories: archaeological site, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Papantla, Veracruz, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
20.4466° or 20° 26′ 48″ northLongitude
-97.3767° or 97° 22′ 36″ westElevation
135 metres (443 feet)Open location code
76G4CJWF+J8OpenStreetMap ID
way 27042143OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
3528079Wikidata ID
Q753895
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“El Tajin” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “El Tajín”
- Arabic: “إل تاجين”
- Arabic: “إل تاخين”
- Arabic: “إيل تاجين”
- Armenian: “Էլ Տախին”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Тахін”
- Catalan: “El Tajín”
- Chinese: “埃尔塔欣”
- Croatian: “El Tajin”
- Croatian: “El Tajín”
- Czech: “El Tajin”
- Czech: “El Tajín”
- Danish: “El Tajin”
- Danish: “El Tajín”
- Dutch: “El Tajin”
- Dutch: “El Tajín”
- Esperanto: “El Tajín”
- Finnish: “El Tajín”
- French: “El Tajin”
- French: “El Tajín”
- Georgian: “ელ-ტახინი”
- Georgian: “ტახინი”
- German: “El Tajin”
- German: “El Tajín”
- Hebrew: “אל טחין”
- Hungarian: “El Tajín”
- Indonesian: “El Tajin”
- Italian: “El Tajin”
- Italian: “El Tajín”
- Japanese: “エル・タヒン”
- Latvian: “Tahina”
- Lithuanian: “El Tachinas”
- Maltese: “El Tajin”
- Maltese: “El Tajín”
- Mingrelian: “ტახინი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Tajin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Tajín”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tajin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tajín”
- Norwegian: “El Tajín”
- Polish: “El Tajin”
- Polish: “El Tajín”
- Portuguese: “Cidade Pré-Hispânica de El Tajín”
- Portuguese: “El Tajín”
- Russian: “El Tajin”
- Russian: “Tajin”
- Russian: “Эль-Тахин”
- Spanish: “El Tajín Veracruz Mexico”
- Spanish: “El Tajín Zona Arqueológica”
- Spanish: “El Tajin”
- Spanish: “El Tajín”
- Spanish: “Tajín”
- Swedish: “El Tajín”
- Thai: “เอลตาฆิน”
- Turkish: “El Tajín”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Тахін”
- Uzbek: “El Tajín”
- Vietnamese: “El Tajín”
- Waray (Philippines): “El Tajín”
- Welsh: “El Tajín”
- “El Tajín”
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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 “El Tajin”. Photo: JuanRamos 1978, CC BY-SA 3.0.