Where was Apocalypto filmed?

2006 film by Mel Gibson

Apocalypto (2006) was filmed in Yucatan Peninsula, San Andrés Tuxtla, Catemaco, Paso de Ovejas and Eyipantla Falls, 5 places named in its Wikipedia article, in Mexico. Wikidata itself records the shoot only as Mexico. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a statement, and every claim on this page says which it is.

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Places per Wikipedia's article

The article names 5 places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Places whose own article says it was shot there

2 places whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.

• Eyipantla Falls Mexico

  “Two films have been shot here, Medicine Man with Sean Connery in the early 1990s and Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto in 2006.” Wikipedia

• Paso de Ovejas Mexico

  “The city of Paso de Ovejas, along with the city of Catemaco, Veracruz, was one of two cities used for most of the filming of Apocalypto (a 2006 film produced by Mel Gibson).” Wikipedia

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in Mexico, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

Filming locations that are mapped there: Mexico

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