Key facts
- Pre Columbian site.name
- banana
- Pre Columbian site.image size
- 250px
- Pre Columbian site.map_caption
- Location within
- Pre Columbian site.mapsize
- 900
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Guatemala
- Image
- Parque Yaxha Nakum Naranjo Templo Guatemala 01.jpg
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- Commons category
- Nakum
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Site description and architecture
- Discovery
- Notes
- References
- External links
right|200px|thumb|Temple E in Nakum; construction dates from the Late Classic period Nakum ("House of the pot") is a Mesoamerican archaeological site, and a former ceremonial center and city of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the northeastern portion of the Petén Basin region, in the modern-day Guatemalan department of Petén. The northeastern Petén region contains a good number of other significant Maya sites, and Nakum is one of the three sites forming the Cultural Triangle of "Yaxha-Nakum-Naranjo". Nakum is approximately to the north of Yaxha and some to the east of Tikal, on the banks of the Holmul River. Its main features include an abundance of visibly restored architecture, and the roof comb of the site's main temple structure is one of the best-preserved outside Tikal.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nakum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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