Copala
Copala is a city and the seat of the municipality of Copala, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. In June 2024, Salvador Villalba Flores, the mayor-elect of the town from the México Avanza party, was assassinated in the town while traveling on a bus to Mexico City.
- Type: Town with 6,620 residents
- Description: municipal seat of Copala, State of Guerrero, Mexico
- Also known as: “Copala, Guerrero”
Copala
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Copala Municipality, Guerrero, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
16.60528° or 16° 36′ 19″ north
Longitude
-98.97278° or 98° 58′ 22″ west
Population
6,620
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
Open location code
7683J24G+4V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Copala” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Copala”
- Chechen: “Копала (Копала, Герреро)”
- Chechen: “Копала”
- Chinese: “科帕拉”
- Dutch: “Copala”
- French: “Copala”
- Irish: “Copala”
- Russian: “Копала”
- Scots: “Copala, Guerrero”
- Scots: “Copala”
- Serbian: “Копала”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Copala, Guerrero”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Copala”
- Spanish: “Copala”
- Swedish: “Copala, Guerrero”
- Swedish: “Copala”
- Tatar: “Копала (Копала, Герреро)”
- Tatar: “Копала”
- Turkish: “Copala, Guerrero”
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Highlights: Mercado municipal and Parroquia San Juan Bautista.
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