Central America
Guatemala
Petén Department

Naachtun

Naachtun is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, situated at the northeastern perimeter of the Mirador Basin region in the southern Maya lowlands, now in the modern-day Department of El Petén, northern Guatemala.
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  • Type: Nature reserve
  • Description: Pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in Guatemala
  • Also known as: “Naachtún”

Naachtun

Latitude
17.7947° or 17° 47′ 41″ north
Longitude
-89.7287° or 89° 43′ 43″ west
Open location code
769GQ7VC+VG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1135542726
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­nature_reserve
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­forest
Wiki­data ID
Q1770492
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Naachtun” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “納赫通”
  • Dutch: “Naachtun”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ناشتون”
  • French: “Naachtun”
  • German: “Naachtun”
  • Italian: “Naachtun”
  • Japanese: “ナーチトゥン”
  • Russian: “Маасаль”
  • Russian: “Наачтун”
  • Spanish: “Naachtun”
  • Spanish: “Naachtún”
  • Ukrainian: “Наачтун”

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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 Wikipedia page “Naachtun”. Photo: Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.