El Tajin

El Tajin is in the state of in . 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.
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JuanRamos 1978, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Latitude
20.4466° or 20° 26′ 48″ north
Longitude
-97.3767° or 97° 22′ 36″ west
Open location code
76G4CJWF+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 27042143
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
3528079
Wiki­data 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 Tajín”
  • Czech: “El Tajín”
  • Danish: “El Tajín”
  • Dutch: “El Tajín”
  • Esperanto: “El Tajín”
  • Finnish: “El Tajín”
  • French: “El Tajín”
  • Georgian: “ელ-ტახინი”
  • Georgian: “ტახინი”
  • German: “El Tajín”
  • Hebrew: “אל טחין”
  • Hungarian: “El Tajín”
  • Indonesian: “El Tajin”
  • Italian: “El Tajín”
  • Japanese: “エル・タヒン”
  • Latvian: “Tahina”
  • Lithuanian: “El Tachinas”
  • Maltese: “El Tajín”
  • Mingrelian: “ტახინი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “El Tajín”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tajín”
  • Norwegian: “El Tajín”
  • 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 Tajín”
  • Spanish: “Tajín”
  • Spanish: “Zona Arqueológica ‘El 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”

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