Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza
A World Heritage Site in Mexico, inscribed in 1988 as a Cultural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Mexico
- Region
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Inscribed
- 1988
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (i)(ii)(iii)
- Component parts
- 1
- Coordinates
- 20.6827, -88.5687
- UNESCO ID
- 483
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Names in other languages
- French
- Ville préhispanique de Chichen - Itza
- Spanish
- Ciudad prehispánica de Chichén-Itzá
- Chinese
- 奇琴伊察古城
Other World Heritage Sites in Mexico
- Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila (2006)
- Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche (2002)
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System (2015)
- Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco (1999)
- Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes (1998)
- Archipiélago de Revillagigedo (2016)
- Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (2010)
- Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (2007)
- Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl (1994)
- El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve (2013)
- El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City (1992)
- Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro (2003)
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