Sacred Cenote
The Sacred Cenote is a water-filled sinkhole in limestone at the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza, in the northern Yucatán Peninsula.
- Body of water
- Description: water-filled sinkhole at the Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza,
- Also known as“Cenote Sagrado”“Well of Sacrifice”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chichen Itza and Gran Museo de Chichén Itzá.
Gran Museo de Chichén Itzá
Museum
The Great Museum of Chichén Itzá is an archaeological… Gran Museo de Chichén Itzá is situated 260 metres north of Sacred Cenote.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piste and X-Calakoop.
Piste
Town
Pisté is a village in Tinum Municipality in the center of Yucatán State, Mexico. Piste is situated 2½ km northwest of Sacred Cenote.
X-Calakoop
Village
X-Calakoop is a village, which is situated 6 km southeast of Sacred Cenote.
Sacred Cenote
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Latitude
20.68773° or 20° 41′ 16″ north
Longitude
-88.56774° or 88° 34′ 4″ west
Open location code
76GHMCQJ+3W
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Sacred Cenote” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cenote Sagrado”
- Catalan: “Cenote sagrat de Chichén Itzá”
- Catalan: “Cenote sagrat”
- Cebuano: “Cenote Sagrado”
- Chinese: “神聖之井”
- Czech: “Studna obětí”
- Esperanto: “Sankta Cenoto”
- French: “Cenote sacré de Chichen Itza”
- German: “Cenote Sagrado”
- German: “Heilige Cenote”
- German: “Heiliger Brunnen von Chichén Itzá”
- Italian: “Cenote sacro”
- Italian: “Cenote Sacro”
- Macedonian: “Света сенота”
- Polish: “Święta cenote”
- Portuguese: “Cenote Sagrado”
- Russian: “Священный сенот”
- Slovenian: “Sveti cenote”
- Spanish: “Cenote sagrado de Chichen Itza”
- Spanish: “Cenote sagrado de Chichen Itzá”
- Spanish: “Cenote sagrado de Chichén Itza”
- Spanish: “Cenote sagrado de Chichén Itzá”
- Spanish: “Cenote sagrado”
- Spanish: “Cenote Sagrado”
- Swedish: “Cenote Sagrado”
- Ukrainian: “священний сенот”
- Ukrainian: “Священний сенот”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gran Museo de Chichén Itzá and Northern Temple or Temple of The Bearded Man.
Nearby Places
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