El Puente
El Puente, or the Parque Arqueológico El Puente, is a Maya archaeological site in the department of Copán in Honduras. Once an independent Maya city, the city of El Puente became a tributary to the nearby city of Copán between the 6th and 9th centuries AD.- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological Maya site in Honduras
- Also known as: “El Puente Archaeological Park”, “Parque Arqueologico El Puente”, and “Parque Arqueológico El Puente”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nueva Arcadia and La Entrada.
Nueva Arcadia
Town
Nueva Arcadia is a municipality in the Honduran department of Copán. La Entrada, with a population of 27,830, is the largest town in the municipality. Nueva Arcadia is situated 7 km southeast of El Puente.
La Entrada
La Entrada is a town in the Honduran department of Copán. It is the capital of the municipality of Nueva Arcadia. The town’s name is Spanish for "The Entrance" as the town is a gateway from coastal Honduras to the mountainous Western highlands.El Puente
- Categories: Maya site in Honduras, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: La Jigua, Copán Department, Honduras, Central America, North America
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Latitude
15.11096° or 15° 6′ 39″ northLongitude
-88.78818° or 88° 47′ 17″ westOpen location code
767H4666+9POpenStreetMap ID
way 157587314OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q3720992
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“El Puente” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “El Puente”
- Catalan: “Parque Arqueológico El Puente”
- Dutch: “El Puente”
- French: “El Puente”
- German: “Archäologiepark El Puente”
- German: “archäologischer Park El Puente”
- German: “El Puente”
- German: “Parque Arqueológico El Puente”
- Italian: “El Puente”
- Polish: “El Puente (stanowisko archeologiczne)”
- Polish: “El Puente”
- Russian: “Эль-Пуэнте”
- Spanish: “El Puente”
- Spanish: “Parque Arqueologico El Puente”
- Spanish: “Parque Arqueológico El Puente”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Пуенте”
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