Cenote Ik-Kil

Cenote Ik-Kil is in Tinum Municipality, Yucatán. Cenote Ik-Kil is situated near the village X-Calakoop, as well as near the town Piste.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Chichen Itza and Balankanche.

Chichen Itza

Photo: Javier Losa, CC BY 2.0.

Chichén Itzá is the largest of the archaeological cities of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. It is one of Mexico's most visited tourist destinations.

Balankanche is an ancient Maya cave site lying at short distance from the archaeological Maya-Toltec city of Chichen Itza, Yucatan. For more than two thousand years, it has been the focus of rituals dedicated to the Maya rain god, Chaac, and, in the Post-Classic period, also to his Toltec counterpart, Tlaloc. Balankanche is situated 1½ km east of Cenote Ik-Kil.

Sacred Cenote

Photo: Anagoria, CC BY 3.0.

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. Sacred Cenote is situated 3½ km northwest of Cenote Ik-Kil.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include X-Calakoop and Piste.

X-Calakoop

Village

Photo: P199, CC BY-SA 3.0.

X-Calakoop is a village, which is situated 3 km southeast of Cenote Ik-Kil.

Piste

Town

Photo: GiorgioGaleotti, CC BY 4.0.

Pisté is a village in Tinum Municipality in the center of Yucatán State, Mexico. It is best known for the Mayan archaeological site Chichen Itza and the cenote Ik Kil. Piste is situated 6 km northwest of Cenote Ik-Kil.

Cenote Ik-Kil

Type: Body of water
Location: Tinum Municipality, Yucatán, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
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Latitude

20.66111° or 20° 39′ 40″ north

Longitude

-88.5505° or 88° 33′ 2″ west

Open location code

76GHMC6X+CR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 49475814

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Cementerio de X-Calakoop and Casa de la Luna.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Hotel Ik-Kil and Restaurante Kasta Kan.

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