Palenque (disambiguation)
Palenque in Spanish means a "[wooden] palisade or stockade". In modern usage, it means an arena, or a cockpit in cockfighting.
Palenque may refer to:
- Palenque, archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya, located in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico
 - Palenque, Chiapas the modern town and municipality in Mexico
 - Palenque (village), a type of village of escaped slaves
 - Palenque, Los Ríos, Ecuador
 - Palenque Canton, Ecuador
 - Isla Palenque, an island of Panama, off the western Pacific shoreline
 - Palenque, Colón, a town in Panama
 - San Basilio de Palenque, Colombian town
 - Palenque, or palenquero, Spanish-based creole language spoken in parts of coastal Colombia
 
See also
- Palengke, a type of public market common throughout the Philippines
 
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