Isthmus of Tehuantepec
The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is an isthmus in Mexico. It represents the shortest distance between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. Before the opening of the Panama Canal, it was a major overland transport route known simply as the Tehuantepec Route.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Isthmus
- Description: shortest distance between the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean
- Also known as: “Istmo de Tehuantepec”, “Tehuantepec”, and “Tehuantepec Route”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Estación Sarabia.
Estación Sarabia
Village
Estacion Sarabia is a town in Oaxaca, Mexico, located between Palomares and Matías Romero in the municipality of San Juan Guichicovi. It has 1,021 inhabitants, 492 men and 529 women, and 42.41% of the local population speaks an indigenous language. Estación Sarabia is situated 8 km north of Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Isthmus of Tehuantepec
- Categories: isthmus and landform
- Location: Mexico, North America
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Isthmus of Tehuantepec” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Isthmus e Tehuantepec”
- Albanian: “Istmi i Tehuantepekut”
- Arabic: “برزخ تيهوانتيبيك”
- Azerbaijani: “Teuantepek bərzəği”
- Azerbaijani: “Teuantepek”
- Basque: “Tehuantepec istmoa”
- Basque: “Tehuantepec”
- Basque: “Tehuantepeceko istmoa”
- Breton: “Strizh-douar Tehuantepec”
- Bulgarian: “Теуантепек”
- Catalan: “istme de Tehuantepec”
- Catalan: “Istme de Tehuantepec”
- Cebuano: “Istmo de Tehuantepec”
- Chinese: “特万特佩克地峡”
- Chinese: “特萬特佩克地峽”
- Croatian: “Tehuantepec”
- Czech: “Tehuantepecká šíje”
- Dutch: “Isthmus van Tehuantepec”
- Dutch: “Istmo de Tehuantepec”
- Dutch: “Istmus van Tehuantepec”
- Dutch: “Landengte van Tehuantepec”
- Esperanto: “istmo de Tehuantepeko”
- Esperanto: “Istmo de Tehuantepeko”
- Esperanto: “Tehuantepa istmo”
- Esperanto: “terkolo de Tehuantepeko”
- Estonian: “Tehuantepeci maakitsus”
- Finnish: “Tehuantepecinkannas”
- French: “Isthme de Tehuantepec”
- Galician: “Istmo de Tehuantepec”
- Georgian: “ტეუანტეპეკის ყელი”
- German: “Isthmus von Tehuantepec”
- Hebrew: “מצר טהואנטפק”
- Hebrew: “מצר טוואנטפק”
- Hungarian: “Tehuantepeci-földszoros”
- Indonesian: “Tanah genting Tehuantepec”
- Indonesian: “Tanah Genting Tehuantepec”
- Italian: “Istmo di Tehuantepec”
- Japanese: “テワンテペク地峡”
- Japanese: “テワンテペック地峡”
- Korean: “테우안테펙 지협”
- Latvian: “Tevantepekas zemesšaurums”
- Lithuanian: “Tehuantepeko sąsmauka”
- Macedonian: “Тевантепек”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Istmo de Tehuantepec”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tehuantepec-eidet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tehuantepeceidet”
- Norwegian: “Tehuantepeceidet”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Istme de Tehuantepec”
- Polish: “Przesmyk Tehuantepec”
- Polish: “Tehuantepec”
- Portuguese: “Istmo de Tehuantepec”
- Romanian: “Isthmus von Tehuantepec”
- Romanian: “Istmul de la Tehuantepec”
- Russian: “Тегуантепек, перешеек”
- Russian: “Теуантепек (перешеек)”
- Russian: “Теуантепек”
- Russian: “Теуантепекский перешеек”
- Serbian: “Tevantepek”
- Serbian: “Превлака Тевантепек”
- Serbian: “Тевантепек”
- Slovak: “Tehuantepecká šija”
- Slovenian: “Prevlaka Tehuantepec”
- Slovenian: “Tehuantepeška ožina”
- Slovenian: “Tehuantepeška zemeljska ožina”
- Slovenian: “Tehuantepeško medmorje”
- Spanish: “Ciudades mas grandes del Istmo de Tehuantepec”
- Spanish: “Ciudades más grandes del Istmo de Tehuantepec”
- Spanish: “Istmo de Tehuantepec”
- Spanish: “Itsmo de Tehuantepec”
- Swedish: “Istmo de Tehuantepec”
- Swedish: “Tehuantepecnäset”
- Ukrainian: “Перешийок Теуантепек”
- Ukrainian: “Теуантепек”
- Ukrainian: “Теуантепецький перешийок”
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