Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve
Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve is an enormous natural protected area in the eastern part of the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Sian Ka'an is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a Ramsar wetland. It lies along the Caribbean coast, just south of Tulum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: biosphere reserve
- Description: biosphere reserve
- Also known as: “Sian Ka’an” and “Sian Kaʼan Biosphere Reserve”
Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve
Latitude
19.895° or 19° 53′ 42″ northLongitude
-87.633° or 87° 37′ 59″ westOpen location code
76FJV9V8+XRWikidata ID
Q559789
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Satellite Map
Discover Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيان كان”
- Armenian: “Սիան Կաան”
- Basque: “Sian Ka’an”
- Belarusian: “Сьян-Каан”
- Bulgarian: “Сиан Каан (биорезерват)”
- Bulgarian: “Сиан Каан”
- Catalan: “Sian Ka’an”
- Chinese: “錫安卡恩”
- Croatian: “Sian Ka’an”
- Czech: “Sian Ka’an”
- Dutch: “Sian Ka’an”
- Finnish: “Sian Ka’an”
- French: “Sian Ka’an”
- Galician: “Reserva da Biosfera de Sian Ka’an”
- Galician: “Sian Ka’an”
- Georgian: “სიან კაანი”
- Georgian: “სიან-კაანი”
- German: “Sian Ka’an”
- Hebrew: “סיאן קאאן”
- Hungarian: “Sian Ka’an Bioszféra-rezervátum”
- Italian: “Sian Ka’an”
- Japanese: “シアン・カアン”
- Japanese: “シアン・カアン生物圏保護区”
- Lithuanian: “Sian Ka’an”
- Lithuanian: “Sian Kaanas”
- Maltese: “Sian Ka’an”
- Mingrelian: “სიან-კაანი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sian Ka’an naturreservat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sian Ka’an”
- Norwegian: “Sian Ka’an”
- Persian: “ذخیرهگاه زیستکره سیان کا”
- Polish: “Sian Ka’an”
- Portuguese: “Sian Ka’an”
- Russian: “Сиан Ка’ан”
- Russian: “Сиан-Каан”
- Serbian: “Sijan Kaan”
- Slovak: “Sian Ka’an”
- Spanish: “Reserva de la Biosfera Sian Ka’an”
- Spanish: “Sian Ka’an”
- Spanish: “Sian Kan”
- Spanish: “Siankan”
- Spanish: “Siankán”
- Swedish: “Sian Ka’an”
- Turkish: “Sian Ka’an”
- Ukrainian: “Біосферний резерв Сіан-Каан”
- Ukrainian: “Сіан-Каан”
- Vietnamese: “Sian Ka’an”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sian Ka’an”
- Yue Chinese: “錫安卡恩”
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