Benque Archaeological Park

Benque Archaeological Park is an archaeological site in Cayo, Belize. Benque Archaeological Park is situated nearby to the park Riverside Trail, as well as near Panteon Cemetery.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Xunantunich.

Xunantunich

Photo: Thomas Shahan, CC BY 2.0.

Xunantunich is an archaeological site outside the town of San Jose Succotz, in the Cayo District of Belize.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Benque Viejo del Carmen and Melchor de Mencos.

Benque Viejo del Carmen, usually shortened to Benque Viejo or simply Benque, is a small border town in the Cayo District of western Belize. It lies along the Mopan River only a short distance from the international border with Guatemala and about 13 km west of San Ignacio.

Melchor de Mencos

Photo: Rudy Canales, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Melchor de Mencos is in Guatemala on the border with Belize and is usually a place that most travelers merely pass through, but it does have some stelae and zoomorphs in a square not far away.

Calla Creek

Village

Calla Creek is a village in the Cayo District of central interior Belize. It is situated along the Mopan River near the border with Guatemala. The village is in an agricultural region with the most frequent crops being citrus and banana. Calla Creek is situated 3½ miles north of Benque Archaeological Park.

Benque Archaeological Park

Type: Archaeological site
Inscription: “Small Maya site that at one time served as the household of a rural elite family. Previous archaeological investigations of the settlement indicate that it was affiliated with the large ancient city of Xunantunich”
Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Cayo, Belize, Central America, North America
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Latitude

17.07089° or 17° 4′ 15″ north

Longitude

-89.14238° or 89° 8′ 33″ west

Open location code

769G3VC5+92

OpenStreetMap ID

way 591666431

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Riverside Trail and Panteon Cemetery.

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