Palenque (disambiguation)

Palenque was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that flourished in the 7th century.

Palenque may also refer to:

Places

• Palenque or quilombo, a free village founded by escaped enslaved people in some regions of South America
• Palenque, Chiapas, the modern town and municipality in Mexico
  • Palenque railway station
• Palenque, Colón, a town in Panama
• Palenque, the capital of Yateras, Cuba
• Palenque Canton, a canton of Ecuador
• Isla Palenque, an island of Panama, off the western Pacific shoreline
• San Basilio de Palenque, a Colombian town
• Sabana Grande de Palenque, a municipality in San Cristóbal province, Dominican Republic

Other uses

• Palenque International Airport, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico
• Palenque language (or Palenquero), a Spanish-based creole language spoken in parts of coastal Colombia
• Palenque River, Ecuador
• an arena or cockpit in cockfighting
• Concerts during Carnival in Jalisco, notably Jalostotitlán, Mexico
• Palenque, a traditional factory to produce the alcoholic drink mezcal

See also

• All pages with titles containing Palenque
• Palengke, a type of public market common throughout the Philippines