Palenque

Located in , the Mayan ruined city of Palenque stands out as one of the most beautiful and tourist-friendly of the Mayan cities. It has well developed tourist infrastructure with easy accessibility and a spectacular setting on a mountain in the midst of a rainforest.
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  • Tourist attraction
  • …lies at an elevation of around 150 metres (480 feet)
  • Description: former Maya city state in southern Mexico
  • Also known as
    “Ruins of Palenque”
    “Zona Arqueologica Palenque”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Temple of the Inscriptions.
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Palenque

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Latitude
17.4841° or 17° 29′ 3″ north
Longitude
-92.045° or 92° 2′ 42″ west
Open location code
7699FXM4+J2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 27638749
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
3522162
Wiki­data ID
Q181427

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Palenque” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Palenque”
  • Arabic: “بالينكي”
  • Armenian: “Պալենկե”
  • Azerbaijani: “Palenke”
  • Basque: “Palenque”
  • Belarusian: “Паленке”
  • Breton: “Palenque”
  • Bulgarian: “Паленке”
  • Catalan: “Palau del Governador”
  • Catalan: “Palenque”
  • Catalan: “Temple de les Inscripcions”
  • Catalan: “Zona arqueològica de Palenque”
  • Chinese: “帕伦克”
  • Chinese: “帕伦克考古区”
  • Chinese: “帕倫克”
  • Croatian: “Palenque”
  • Czech: “Palenque”
  • Danish: “Palenque”
  • Dutch: “Palenque (Mayastad)”
  • Dutch: “Palenque”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بالينكى”
  • Esperanto: “Palenque”
  • Finnish: “Palenque”
  • French: “Palenque”
  • French: “Ruines de Palenque”
  • Galician: “Palenque, Chiapas”
  • Galician: “Palenque”
  • Georgian: “პალენკე”
  • German: “B’aakal”
  • German: “Palenque”
  • Greek: “Παλένκε”
  • Hebrew: “פלנקה”
  • Hindi: “पलेंक”
  • Hungarian: “Palenque”
  • Indonesian: “Palenque”
  • Italian: “Palenque”
  • Italian: “parco nazionale di Palenque”
  • Italian: “parco nazionale Palenque”
  • Japanese: “パレンケ”
  • Kazakh: “Паленке”
  • Korean: “팔렌케”
  • Korean: “팔렝케”
  • Latvian: “Palenke”
  • Lithuanian: “Palenkė”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Palenque”
  • Macedonian: “Паленке”
  • Maltese: “Palenqué”
  • Mingrelian: “პალენკე”
  • Newari: “पालेन्के”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palenque”
  • Norwegian: “Palenque”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਾਲੇਂਕੇ”
  • Persian: “پالنکه”
  • Polish: “Palenqué”
  • Polish: “Park Narodowy Palenque”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Pré-Hispânica e Parque Nacional de Palenque”
  • Portuguese: “Palenque”
  • Romanian: “Palenque”
  • Russian: “Лакам-Ха”
  • Russian: “Паленке”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palenke”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palenque”
  • Slovak: “Palenque”
  • Slovenian: “Palenque”
  • Spanish: “B’aakal”
  • Spanish: “Palenque”
  • Spanish: “Ruinas de Palenque”
  • Spanish: “Templo de las Inscripciones”
  • Spanish: “Zona arqueológica de Palenque”
  • Swedish: “Palenque”
  • Tagalog: “Palenque”
  • Tatar: “Паленке археологик паркы”
  • Thai: “ปาเลงเก”
  • Tibetan: “ཕ་ལོན་ཁེ།”
  • Turkish: “Palenque”
  • Ukrainian: “Паленке”
  • Urdu: “پالینکے”
  • Vietnamese: “Palenque”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố thời tiền Colombo và Vườn quốc gia Palenque”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palenque”
  • Welsh: “Palenque”
  • “Palenque (zona arqueológica)”

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