La Blanca
La Blanca is a Maya pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the municipality of Melchor de Mencos in the northern Petén Department of Guatemala.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Evergreen forest
- Description: archaeological site in Petén, Guatemala
- Also known as: “La Blanca, Peten”
La Blanca
- Categories: archaeological site, forest, and historic site
- Location: Petén Department, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Latitude
16.9107° or 16° 54′ 38″ northLongitude
-89.436° or 89° 26′ 10″ westOpen location code
768GWH67+7HOpenStreetMap ID
way 869716119OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
natural=woodWikidata ID
Q6461255
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Thai—“La Blanca” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Laguneta La Blanca”
- French: “La Blanca”
- German: “La Blanca (Maya-Stätte)”
- German: “La Blanca”
- Spanish: “La Blanca (Guatemala)”
- Spanish: “La Blanca (Petén)”
- Spanish: “La Blanca (sitio arqueológico)”
- Spanish: “La Blanca”
- Swedish: “Laguneta La Blanca”
- Thai: “ลาบลังกา”
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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 “La Blanca”. Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 3.0.