Guatemala
Northern Lowlands
Petén Department

Piedras Negras

Piedras Negras is a Mayan archaeological site in near the Usumacinta River. The site was a large city, known for its large number of sculptures.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ruined city of pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Guatemala
  • Also known as: “Sitio Arqueológico de Piedras Negras” and “Sitio Arqueologico Piedras Negras”

Piedras Negras

Latitude
17.1684° or 17° 10′ 6″ north
Longitude
-91.2618° or 91° 15′ 43″ west
Elevation
145 metres (476 feet)
Open location code
769C5P9Q+97
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5482002352
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
3591330
Wiki­data ID
Q2031261
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In Other Languages

From Bashkir to Ukrainian—“Piedras Negras” goes by many names.
  • Bashkir: “Пьедрас-Неграс”
  • Catalan: “Piedras Negras”
  • Cebuano: “Sitio Arqueológico Piedras Negras”
  • Chinese: “彼德拉斯內格拉斯”
  • Chinese: “黑石城”
  • Chinese: “黑石遗址”
  • Dutch: “Piedras Negras”
  • French: “Piedras Negras”
  • Galician: “Piedras Negras”
  • German: “Piedras Negras”
  • German: “Ruinen von Piedras Negras”
  • Hebrew: “פיידרס נגרס”
  • Hungarian: “Piedras Negras (romváros)”
  • Hungarian: “Piedras Negras”
  • Indonesian: “Piedras Negras (situs Maya)”
  • Indonesian: “Piedras Negras”
  • Italian: “Piedras Negras”
  • Japanese: “ピエドラス・ネグラス”
  • Lithuanian: “Piedras Negras”
  • Polish: “Piedras Negras (stanowisko archeologiczne)”
  • Polish: “Piedras Negras”
  • Portuguese: “Piedras Negras”
  • Russian: “Пьедрас Неграс”
  • Russian: “Пьедрас-Неграс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Piedras Negras”
  • Spanish: “Piedras Negras”
  • Spanish: “Ruinas de piedras negras”
  • Spanish: “Sitio Arqueológico Piedras Negras”
  • Swedish: “Piedras Negras, Guatemala”
  • Swedish: “Piedras Negras”
  • Tatar: “Пьедрас-Неграс (археологик зона)”
  • Tatar: “Пьедрас-Неграс”
  • Ukrainian: “П’єдрас-Неграс”
  • “Piedras Negras”

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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 “Piedras Negras”. Photo: Authenticmaya, CC BY-SA 2.5.