Mayapan
Mayapan is an archaeological site in Yucatán, Mexico. It was a fairly large city, built after the demise of Chichen Itza, and it took on the mantle of being the most powerful and influential Mayan city in the Yucatán.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: SiMeCaIS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: pre-Columbian Maya site in Mexico
- Also known as: “Zona Arqueológica de Mayapán”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Telchaquillo.
Mayapan
- Categories: archaeological site, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Tecoh Municipality, Yucatán, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
20.6292° or 20° 37′ 45″ northLongitude
-89.4604° or 89° 27′ 37″ westElevation
17 metres (56 feet)Open location code
76GGJGHQ+MVOpenStreetMap ID
way 27148083OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
3822506Wikidata ID
Q567966
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Mayapan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مايابان”
- Belarusian: “Маяпан”
- Bulgarian: “Маяпан”
- Chinese: “玛雅潘”
- Croatian: “Mayapán”
- Dutch: “Mayapan”
- Dutch: “Mayapán”
- Esperanto: “Mayapan”
- Finnish: “Mayapán”
- French: “Mayapan”
- Georgian: “მაიაპანი”
- German: “Mayapán”
- Hebrew: “מאיאפאן”
- Hungarian: “Mayapán”
- Indonesian: “Mayapan”
- Italian: “Mayapan”
- Japanese: “マヤパン”
- Korean: “마야판”
- Lithuanian: “Majapanas”
- Macedonian: “Мајапан”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mayapan”
- Norwegian: “Mayapan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mayapan”
- Persian: “مایاپان”
- Polish: “Mayapan”
- Polish: “Mayapán”
- Portuguese: “Mayapan”
- Russian: “Майяпан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mayapán”
- Spanish: “Mayapan”
- Spanish: “Mayapán”
- Swedish: “Mayapán”
- Turkish: “Mayapán”
- Ukrainian: “Майяпан”
- Ukrainian: “Маяпан”
- Vietnamese: “Mayapán”
- “Mayapán”
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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 “Mayapan”. Photo: SiMeCaIS, CC BY-SA 3.0.