Zinacantán
San Lorenzo Zinacantán is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. 99.1% of its population is Tzotzil Maya, an indigenous people with linguistic and cultural ties to other highland Maya peoples.Photo: Carlos t, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 5,580 residents
- Description: municipal seat of Zinacantán, State of Chiapas, Mexico
- Also known as: “Zinacantan” and “Zinacatán”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Juan Chamula and San Cristóbal de las Casas.
San Juan Chamula
Photo: Bruno Rijsman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
San Juan Chamula, usually referred to as simply Chamula, is a small town in the mountainous jungles of Chiapas in southern Mexico. Chamula is the main town of the indigenous Tzotzil people.
San Cristóbal de las Casas
San Cristóbal de las Casas is in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. It is the cultural capital of the state, and was designated a 'Pueblo Mágico' by the Mexican government in 2003.
Zinacantán
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Zinacantán Municipality, Chiapas, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
16.76041° or 16° 45′ 38″ northLongitude
-92.7218° or 92° 43′ 19″ westPopulation
5,580Elevation
2,160 metres (7,087 feet)Open location code
7689Q76H+57OpenStreetMap ID
node 2191073879OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3514026Wikidata ID
Q2477628
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Zinacantán” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Zinacantán”
- Cebuano: “Zinacantán”
- Chechen: “Зинакантан (Зинакантан, Чияпас)”
- Chechen: “Зинакантан”
- Dutch: “Zinacantán, Chiapas”
- Dutch: “Zinacantán”
- Esperanto: “Zinacantán”
- French: “Zinacantan”
- French: “Zinacantán”
- Georgian: “სინაკანტანი”
- Italian: “Zinacantan”
- Italian: “Zinacantán”
- Japanese: “シナカンタン”
- Polish: “Zinacantán”
- Portuguese: “Zinacantán”
- Russian: “Синакантан”
- Serbian: “Зинакантан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zinacantán, Chiapas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zinacantán”
- Spanish: “Zinacantan”
- Spanish: “Zinacantán”
- Swedish: “Zinacantán”
- Tatar: “Зинакантан”
- Turkish: “Zinacantán”
- Vietnamese: “Zinacantán”
- “Tzinacantan”
- “Tzinacantlan”
- “Tzinācantlān”
- “Zinacantan”
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Highlights include Iglesia de San Lorenzo and Capilla El Señor de Esquipulas.
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